cwerdna
Well-Known Member
I'm not sure that it is. We have numerous long lived Priuses at Lifespan/Operating costs.Really will be interesting to see how these cars age. 200K miles is the gold standard for ICE cars, and even to get there you limp through many brake jobs, a timing belt or two, and probably countless other repairs.
2 fas 4 u was one of the nuttiest at 465K miles on his 09 Prius (was consuming lots of oil for awhile) before he traded it in for a '12 Prius v wagon. That didn't last as long. He replaced the engine at 350K miles and hd expensive probs at 369K miles, so he replaced it with a '14 Prius v wagon which is at 442K miles as of a few months ago. Maybe it's starting to have probs?
Priuses have no timing belts. I believe his 465K mile 09 Prius was on its original brakes.
I posted at automotive reliability and durability testing about a Nissan NV 3500 van shown with 557K miles on the odometer
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For the newly designed 2013 Malibu, Chevrolet engineers used about 170 pre-production test cars, driving each one about 45,000 miles per month for 22 months. (The re-designed 2013 Malibu Eco debuted in March.) In total, they put about 1 million miles on the test cars during the pre-production phase.