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Old 07-26-2017, 05:04 PM   #10 (permalink)
RedDevil
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If your choice of a manual sedan is for the comfort of rear passengers, give the Prius III a chance.
It is not a sedan and it is not a manual, but it is really spacious in the back and really comfortable. And it gets 50 mpg without trying.

I know someone who flies all over the world and has been in all kinds of cabs.
He prefers a Prius cab over anything else, including Audi A8 and Mercedes S class.
The room in the back is hardly any less than the S class and the HSD gearbox stays smooth no matter how hard the driver tries to manhandle it; there is no gear change hump, ever.

A colleague of mine had frail parents and in-laws to ferry. He test drove a Prius on my insistence, while looking for completely different types of cars. But he bought it, to his own amazement.

I'm biased btw - against Toyota, having owned 5 Hondas and 0 Toyotas.
But the Insight, while adequate, is not spacious. It seats only 2¾ in the back.
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