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Originally Posted by JDMDreams
Anyone have a Prius prime? Any comments? Seems like a decent deal for phev for $35000, is the tech package worth it? Any negotiation room on rates on toyota site or what your see is what you get? Could pay cash too.
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I semi-seriously looked into it in 2019. If you are looking to buy used, the pre-2020 cars only had 2 seats in the back. A full 3-seater back seat didn't come until 2020.
I liked the car and the visibility from the driver seat. For my purposes, even the base version felt good enough -- I certainly didn't care for the bigger touch screen in the higher trim model, and the interior materials in the base car felt good enough even though certain black trim pieces look like they could easily get scratched up.
As is the case with the UX250h, the deal breaker was the absymal trunk size -- the trunk was very shallow because it had to accommodate the batteries.
In a Prius Prime discussion group that I was in, some owners have indicated that the front end plastic trim pieces are somewhat prone to road damage, so keep an eye out for that.