I dont know what all of you are thinking about but have any of you considered the greater resale value of the hybrid 400h?
I trade cars a lot more frequently as I want the latest way to often for my own good,,lol anyway resale on other SUV's is dropping like a rock, along with pick up trucks ect. I know you pay more for your hybrid, but as gas prices increase so does your resale value on a hybrid.
I looked at a 2 year old Prius last year, Carmax wanted within $2000 of the price of a new one and it had 21000 miles on it. So I bought new, and i bought a new 400h just this March. Also I am getting over 28.5 MPG average so far and at times on the highway I have gotten 32.6 MPG, it is all in how you drive, but owners of the newer ones seem to be reporting higher MPG's. Oh and by the way the manual on the 2008 400h says premium required!
dennis
Don't you love the passing power of the 400h ?????
FYI: my 400h is 71k miles now. Doing about 28-29mpg mixed, but I stopped paying attention to that, and more to the shear fun of driving on the road.
As stated in my previous post, it's just naive to quote a 4-5 yr BEven when there's more to the assumptions. The best way to quote a breakeven is "MILES driven to BEven" which is a more normalized factor. But even at that, you must quote the gas price assumption.
Also regarding 400h, the RS/A wears out too quickly, so quickly that they don't even quote any mileage warranty on it. A 2 tire direct replacement would set back $600 or so. So I am trying the lesser known Sumitomo LSV rated at 70,000miles. It's deep threaded, V-rating (don't believe it), fairly quiet. A 2-tire replacement costed me $400. Handling is very good under FL hot sun/pavement. more to come later