[guudasitgets]

Ah stevey; a used one, I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole, Do you how much the controller cost to replace, more than the cars worth, In my case it would'nt pay, there isn't that much gain, I have three friends with them and drive in my rural area and they get about ten mpg better than my car, so the math is my car is paid for, a new motor in the crate if I need it is $1300.00 (US), My engine I'm guessing has about 60-70,000 miles on it so it should last awile. So if I bought a Pirus it would set me back $20,000; cut that up by 10 more mpg's and I drive an average of 13,000 miles a year and I get 42mpg average, all my Pirus friends get around 57 or 58 driving around here. So now we have the equation 13,000/42= 309.5 gallons x $2.69 per gallon = $832. A Pirus driving the same distance would cost ( 13,000/57mpg= 228 gallons x $2.69= $613.51 a differance of $219.11, at that rate it would take 91 years to pay for itself with the differance. If I bought a new Kia Rio for around $13,000 with all the goodys (as little as there would be) they get around the same milliage as my car, so the cost differance would be about $10,000 more. To make up for the differance I would have to drive the Pirus only 45 years. This is not including all the extra cost to maintain the Pirus unless sombody shows me how that car is less expensive on replacement parts than a normal drivetrain car, I thought so, it isn't. See now how people can get taken for a ride, no pun intended.