Total "Luggage" capacity ?

Can't give you exact cubic feet, but some of the real convincing
factors for me had to do with interior space in various modes. With
the back seats folded down it's over 6 feet from the rear hatch lip
to the back of the front-seat center armrest [and thus the backs of
the front seats]. That amount of linear space is rare to find in
most SUVs, let alone smallish wagons -- it was always annoyingly
less, like 5'6" or whatever. There's a gap just behind the front
seat backs but I mitigated this by cutting a piece of plywood I can
drop into the rear bed that hangs over that gap to close the space,
and spreads heavy loads out over the battery pack.
.
Also if you remembered to drop the passenger front-seat back down
and tuck it under the rear seatback, you get over *eight* feet of
linear space from rear lip to dash with a respectable cross-section.
This is absolutely cavernous for a car this size -- you won't get a
4x8 sheet of plywood in there, but I have loaded narrow theater
setpieces [8' high flats] and such into there with room left over.
.
Take a tape measure to some items you commonly expect to carry, and
then crawl all over a Prius and fiddle with the seats and you'll
very likely find a way you can get those items in.
.
_H*

 

Just for the record, we're planning to sell our CR-V (which we've loved 'til gas prices went sky-high) and instead get a Prius. In driving a colleague's the other day, and seeing how many ways space can be created, and the volume of true room inside, I suspect the Prius actually could fit more stuff easier! I can get my bike inside my CR-V, and I think getting it into the Prius would be easier (though I'll get a back bike rack eventually).

For us, the "hidden" storage areas of the Prius are a real plus, too, to hide things we don't want to have easily found, etc.

So, from a CR-V owner to a potential one, I'd suggest they follow the advice given: measure your stuff and test!