2005 Toyota Prius

Great Car my first 250 miles averaged 56 mpg. The car is quiet well made and is rated high by the experts. If you buy used hold out for Navigation and other upper end accessories, package #6, it is worth the extra investment. Computer in car is really cool. You feel like your in a car of the future. Great car for the environment.

Buy used (at about 20K miles and 2yrs old) and should be able to get a car in like new condition for about 65% of orginal MSRP(plus options). Mine was way under the loan value of the car. Great Buy.

Overall I am happy with my Prius purchase. I have always wanted one but could never afford one. awhile back an old man totaled my daily driver and forced me back into the car market. I could not afford a $26k prius so I went on ebay and found it for less then half! I found a really good one in Florida close to my home but the seller only had 1 feedback so I went with an ebay car dealer. The car wasn't as good but the transaction was smooth and it made me feel a little more secure. I also noticed that ebay has a $50,000 dollar car buyers protection plan.
Everything worked out well and i got my car shipped to my house. Once I got the car I did the standard oil and air filter change, along with other maintenance checks. Now I am happy to say I drive a car that I thought would take years to get. The car did not come with some things I expected on it like navigation, rear view camera, 6 disc changer, and smart key doors. It also has some nicks and dings, but I am just happy to have it. Well, as far as buying cars on ebay as long as you have common sense and read you should have a great time and get a deal. Happy ebaying to all, and thanks ebay for helping make one of my cars dreams a reality.
Chris Elms

That Guy is very nice, honest, professional and 100% reliable. Very trust-worthy. I'm lucky to do business with him.

This car is SO much fun to drive. I watch the touch screen for how the gas mileage is being effected by how I am driving. It has plenty of room. There is none of the sterio typical no power and slow speed. Even our style-conscious kids love it. I can't say enough good about it. I have not had to have it worked on yet, other than brakes. Let's hope I still love it when it is time for that.

45 mpg, low low CO2. 2nd highest mpg car on the market.
Love Toyota. Great design work with the Prius.

Not knowing too much about the toyota prius, When I purchased this auto I did not know it came with all the bells and whistles. big bonus. buying on Ebay was not a problem. Bringing it across to Canada wasn't either.It is very comfortable to sit in and drive. Very well built. It must have at least 4 computers running it. The navigation system is Okay, the upgrade disks are very $$$$. the cloth tan seats seem to show the dirt very easily. I've decided to upgrade to leather seats, bought on e-bay of course.
Driving in snow is a pleasure with ice tires.
This car built by toyota is a engineering marvel. plain and simple. worth every penny.

Had the Prius for over 3 years now. Never had any issues with it. It is comfortable, can't beat gas mileage, easy to park.

Gas mileage is awesome - 52 mpg on trip. Bought a Prius on recommendation of cousin who has one and loves it. Am a confirmed Toyota consumer as this is my third Toyota.

We bought a 2005 Prius from Vk Exports through Ebay a few weeks ago.
The seller Mr. Vadim Kuleshov was especially kind to us.
The car is in like new condition -- it looks very good--and runs very well.
We believe we got a very good deal.
We would recommend Vk exports.

Terry Helseth

This is my first experience with a Toyota, or any kind of foreign car. I've had it only one month, but it seems to work very well. At over 80,000 miles, the inside and outside still look great, and it runs very well. No strange noises or other problems.

One of the most significant reasons people consider a Prius is because of the gas mileage. Currently I am getting an average of about 45 mpg. A nice feature of this car is that you can see at any time both the current and average mpg. At slow speeds (<30 mph) its efficiency is quite low (but not necessarily lower than other cars'), anywhere from 5-20 mpg, depending on speed, whether going uphill or down, etc. At high speeds, such as on highways, I can expect 45-50 mpg. Going down hill you can get even higher. Descending a long, steep hill in TN recently, I was getting a sustained average of over 75 mpg for 15 miles.

The keyless entry works well. A person could get spoiled. I find myself wishing the front door of my house worked that way.

The bluetooth option is very handy, and works great with my cell phone. Unfortunately my cell phone cannot export its address book to the car, so that makes entering numbers much more tedious.

The GPS navigation unit works well, although in my 2005 model the data is a little outdated.

Frustrations:

A friend has the 2006 model, and it has a built-in camera, that shows what is behind you when you're backing up. I expected this in my car, but it was not there. Also in 2006, the computer display changed from analog to LCD; the LCD is sharper and presumably more energy efficient, but the analog one is very readable. The power windows seem a little over-powered; I worry that something is going to break if I hold the window control in the "up" position a moment too long. The lack of key-based ignition worried me; all you have is a big ol' round start button. Apparently the key needs to be present for it to work, but I wonder about the security of it. The navigation system is not too hard to use, but I was extremely frustrated with it until I learned how to pick what region of the US I am in. I did not realize that it cannot find addresses outside the current selected region, even if it is displaying the area on screen. (In other words, you may be looking at your city on the GPS map, but unless you've chosen your state's region on another screen, you won't be able to find any addresses that you search for. This is kind of aggravating, especially if like me you live where you are frequently crossing between regions.) Towards the end of my first long trip (500+ miles), a light came on that said "MAINT REQD" (Maintenance Required). Unfortunately I had taken the manual out to study it at home, and it was late at night on a Sunday, and I was 180 miles from home. I didn't know what to think, but there was nothing to do but plod on. Later I learned that this is Prius-speak for "Time to change your oil." Evidently this happens every several thousand miles, and once you change the oil you do a fancy little maneuver to reset it. But for the uninitiated it can be a little unsettling.

When you back up in this car, it does a little beep-beep-beep, like heavy equipment and big trucks do. It doesn't bother me, but it might some people.