Survey of Prius Ebay sales
 

Hi,

A friend is selling his Prius so I did a survey of Prius sales prices from the completed listings on Ebay. This takes a little time as the data has to be entered manually. But with a recent request for a high-mileage vehicle for under $10k, timely:

http://hiwaay.net/~bzwilson/prius/ebay_010.jpg

The ZVW30, 2010-2011, is effectively the "new car" and it still commands a substantial premium. However, two NHW20, 2004-2009, showed up including one with a hymotion, PHEV installed.

http://hiwaay.net/~bzwilson/prius/ebay_020.jpg

Now if one wants to risk a car with an accident or salvage title, the prices become much more reasonable. If someone is planning to modify their ride, self-maintenance to the extreme, these would be good vehicles to start.

By the way, we can divide the miles by model year age, offset by six months, to find the average number of miles each car accumulated when sold:

http://hiwaay.net/~bzwilson/prius/ebay_030.jpg

The double-humped curve is indicative of two types of owners. One set does not drive many miles per years and this is the set CNW Marketing used when they published their "dust-to-dust" nonsense. The other set drive the heck out of their high mileage cars. They drive enough miles so the fuel savings becomes a predominate expense per mile.

Bob Wilson