Prius is a fast depreciating piece of technology!

To the OP, how many miles on your 2010 Prius II? What condition?

What Tacoma did you have? 2 door base model or 4 door 4WD ???

Specifics please!

Here's a 2007 Tacoma base model Access Cab w 76k miles for $16k 2007 Toyota Tacoma Access Cab Auto 2WD - Ready for a new Home

a 2007 Prius Touring w 79k miles asking $13k 2007 Toyota Prius (Leather, Nav, Bluetooth!) touring

2007 Prius Touring w 86k mi asking $15k 2007 Toyota Prius Touring - Leather - Navigation - Bluetooth - 1-Owner

another 2007 Prius Touring 102k mi asking $12k 2007 Toyata Prius TOURING/LEATHER

So, just how is Prius a bad resale value?

What is the KBB and Nadaguides value on your car? Quick cause this thread is worthless without specifics.

No, you look up the KBB on your car or whatever. Not doing it for you.

How many miles are on YOUR car? What condition??

 

2010 Prius II asking $12,900 but has 114k miles on it. in RICHMOND VA

2010 Toyota Prius II

2010 II $13, 200 w 78k miles Toyota prius II 2010

Dealer asking $17k Hatchback 2010 Toyota Prius Winter Gray Metallic Ii

dealer asking $16k w 31k mi 2010 Toyota Prius 5dr HB II

$17k , 40 k miles 2010 TOYOTA Prius Hatchback II 4dr Hatchback

I don't see any probs with Prius resale values. Sold my 2009 private sale 2 days after the ad came out and pulled $18.5k out of it.

 

It is hard to know if you got a really good deal on your first purchace causing it to look like the tacoma gained resale value over this period. with used cars it is hard to make this type of compairson.

It sounds to me like you need to decide what type of car you want. and drive it. If you always want to change cars your driving and are upset that it costs money. That is just life. Car lots are in business and will try to make a living, can you blame them.

 

...well, I learned something...I did not know Toyota Tacoma was such a good vehicle. But Prius is also. I have a mini-van for hauling and Prius for most miles per year. Works for us with two drviers.

 

A co worker has a Tacoma 4x4 gets horrible mileage, costs $60 to full it up and no NAV screen has to use his phone and the ride is ruff. He likes the truck. I like my Prius much better.

 

Two comments;

(1) Those are Craigslist 'Asks', not average selling prices after negotiations. OP is getting shaved by the Ask-Offer spread, which always hurts and is larger from dealerships.

(2) Those postings are stale, 10 to 24 days old, so they are strongly biased towards overpriced offers from dealerships. Average offer price will be significantly lower, but you'd need to include the offers that stay up just a few days or hours. Average selling prices will be even lower still.

Before my first-ever foray into selling anything on CL last week, I heard from others that good cars sell fast. But despite pricing a mechanically-challenged Subaru at the highest level I could comfortably charge an acquaintance, I still wasn't prepared for the frenzy. My ad stayed up only two hours. Next time, I'll start higher.

 

The only place a used car does not depreciate , is in your dealers
Used car lot price

 

I'm out of this thread.

Not worth discussing things without specifics like - what type of 2006 Tacoma are we talking about with how many miles?? How many miles are on his 2010??

The biggest factors in resale of any vehicle are miles on the car and condition and we don't know squat about either thus far, and the OP isn't offering, just playing. Later.

 

I'm not sure its true. If your prius was worth less than your tacoma when you got it. then you lost money on that trade. a year later go to trade back for a similar tacoma with less miles than your original then you should expect to pay more. car lots make a profit or they are not in business.

If you are wanting to know what depreciation was you should compair blue book value of tacoma in 2012 and what it is now. and also compair the prius then to now in the same way. then you will have numbers that make sence. I always sell my cars on craigs list. and buy cars without a trade. I have had several times where dealers offered only a fraction of what a car will sell for. a couple of cars back a dealer offered me 1100 for my 94 ford f350 diesel crewcab 4x4. I sold it myself in one week for 8900. It had lots of miles but was in nice shape and everything worked properly. A year ago was offered 500 for 99 k1500 suburban, it also was in nice shape, I sold it for 4300. Dealers don't want cars with lots of miles or if they are not very easy to sell. If they pay you top dollar the are making a double profit on the car they are selling. again they do this for a living and if they dont make money they go out of business.

 

50k miles on prerunner 2006 is really low miles (7 year old truck).

I could see them offering only $13.5k for your 2010 in your area. There's a 2010 w/ 38k dealer asking almost $17k. They're trying to make money.

You should be able to pull about $16.5k private sale out of your prius since only 32k miles and has add ons.

 

All vehicles depreciate.

On the bright side, Prius would be among a rare class of vehicle that holds the possibility of actually increasing in value in relationship to the increase of gas prices.