Selling Prius C should I consider another hybrid?

I think you'd enjoy a larger Prius, but fact you're limited in parking options and using the car infrequently means you shouldn't spend another penny on your car other than gas and oil changes and learn to live with it. The increase in safety will be very minor, especially if you aren't driving often. Just be patient, once your toddler is older you'll have a better sense of what kind of car you need next.

 

If your top concern is safety for your toddler, I would look at cars on the list here:
2020 TOP SAFETY PICKs


Hybrid cars are the least efficient when only used occasionally and for short distances, so I wouldn’t buy a different one unless you’re driving more often or longer distances.

For your lifestyle, a fair question to ask is do you need a car at all? There are a lot of public transportation options in New York, and you can rent a car or use a ride sharing service when you visit family upstate. It might be cheaper overall if you don’t drive much.

 

Yea... Finding other parents who may want to be partial owner in your vehicle would be a good way to boost income.

 

You'll pay twice as much in gas for those miles in a larger, safer, non-hybrid car...

 

Go test drive a current Prius, it has good pick up and in NY consider the AWD model.

 

I think that you should buy a normal car because fuel economy between regular car and hybrid are not too much different if your commute are short distance and climbing the hill. And regular car will not depreciated too much like hybrid . And gas price are pretty cheap. If you don’t drive a lot buying hybrid are not save you anything.

 

Yes! Definitely! If you don't have to buy new the second and third gen Prius (2004-2009 and 2010-2015) are great machines. Don't know much about the current generation (2016- present). The Prius V (station wagon) is also a great choice! Doesn't have than tiny feeling the Prius C has. Test drove one once and didn't like the whining/whirling noice when you accelerated.

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90 + 90 + 20 = 200 a week when you go upstate every other week or 5200 miles a year

The other weeks are only 20 x 26 or 520

So at around 6k miles a year does the MPG difference matter that much?

All current Toyotas have a lot of safety features your c didn't have.

I went from a v to a 200+ HP Rav4h for the cargo capacity. Think how you gonna get that bassinet home? Bike?

 

It meets the IIHS Top Safety Pick criteria for 2012, 2013, and 2015 (late production only). It would have fallen off the list the other years (and first portion of 2015) because the IIHS criteria keeps creeping ever higher every year. So while it is not the best available now, it was excellent for its era, so should not far behind on the curve now. This is something to watch for any used car.

There is a higher Top Safety Pick Plus rating, which this model never reached.