Thanks to a sagging economy and cheap pump prices, Toyota’s Prius might not be the hot ticket it was a few months ago, but the Japanese automaker hopes to reverse that trend by giving buyers a less-expensive option to acquire the Prius or other Toyota hybrid of their dreams. Toyota’s Certified Used Hybrid program upgrades the automaker’s current certified program with hybrid-specific inspections designed to provide peace of mind for used Toyota shoppers.
The hybrid-specific program provides 14 additional inspection points over the automaker’s current Certified Used Vehicle program. Though primarily a marketing tool, Toyota says the inspection helps cover key hybrid components, like the transaxle, control modules and battery.
Used Prius, Camry and Highlander hybrids that meet the qualification requirements will be given the same three-month, 3,000-mile comprehensive warranty and seven-year, 100,000-mile powertrain warranty and roadside assistance plan that standard certified Toyota used cars receive. The certification process doesn’t change the standard eight-year, 100,000-mile factory hybrid battery warranty.



01/20, 3:09 PM
posted by:
MercMark
Ummmm no thanks.
01/20, 3:16 PM
posted by:
Dindel
“Toyota’s Prius might not be the hot ticket it was a few months ago”
Everybody knew a new model is around the block.
01/20, 3:34 PM
posted by:
05Z88Path
I’d certify it as an ugly POS….
01/20, 3:48 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
I don’t know if I’d want a used Prius. From what I hear it’s near impossible to get that old tree sap off the fabric.
01/20, 4:13 PM
posted by:
idrinorbarsaku
sorry but no thanks… i love diesels!!! i would have to be gay to get a prius
01/20, 5:21 PM
posted by:
Zcarsales
This is actually a smart move on Toyota’s part. They’ve recognized the concern over purchasing a used hybrid and addressed it with style. However, I will never latch on to the myth that hybrids are good for the environment or the consumer’s wallet. Its a government induced scam. They want you to drive ugly little cars that are “green.” Its Washington DC’s fault that the gas prices are so high.
If you remember the movement about 5 years ago to demonize the SUV. Terms like “unfairly safe” were consistently used. Then the argument was that drivers of gas thirsty SUV’s were supporting terrorists. Liberal democrats and weak kneed republicans, and that’s when gas started creeping up.
Commercially, the trend is that Americans want large vehicles with large V-8’s in them. Most of all they want the choice. It is immoral that the government gets to choose which market flourishes and which one dies. Using the tax code to dictate what I should drive is a crime. Congress’ use of our energy policy to punish oil companies while rewarding corn farmers should disgust the average voter.
Its amazing that our nation’s decisions always err on the side of pop culture and not basic LAWS of economics. We’ve truly arrived at an era of “Bread and Circuses.” When voting, the electorate has no concern that the people that they vote for have no personal responsibility. They never worry about making ends meet, never have served in private sector, buy votes through social programs, and have the absolute gall to tell business men (The real ones who create jobs) how they should spend their money.
I apologize for the long post, but this hybrid hype and need is totally manufactured by a federal government that doesn’t see the need to get out of the way. I’m as equally angered by the unintelligent voting decisions by the American people. We want this and that, but we vote differently from that.
Long live the 4-barrel big block V-8!
01/20, 5:28 PM
posted by:
The Stig
3 month warranty? That’s really motivating … to look at something else.
01/20, 5:55 PM
posted by:
Mutant@DCX
Toyota of my dreams
Say your prayers little one
Dont forget, my son
To include everyone
Tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the sandman he comes
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land
Somethings wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they arent of snow white
Dreams of matrix, dreams of camry
Dreams of prius’ dragon fire
And of things that will bite
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the lord my soul to take
Hush little baby, dont say a word
And never mind that corolla noise you heard
Its just the yaris under your bed,
In your closet, in your head
Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Were off to never never land
01/20, 10:04 PM
posted by:
HRR
Toyota Hybrid of MY dreams??? Hmmmm…. I’d have to say it’s buried in a scrapyard somewhere.
01/20, 10:13 PM
posted by:
HRR
That fuking mettalica song is overrated as fuk also, it sucks. Do you think you’re really that cool for copy and pasting an old ass metallica song like that? “Oh ****, mr cool just posted, he likes metallica, what a bad ass!”
01/20, 11:34 PM
posted by:
yarddog82abn
@HRR… I’m sure Mutant@DCX was “dissing” Toyota with his rendition of Metalica, beside’s there is no way you look cool listening to Metalica in a Prius, You will look like a gay man trying not to look gay.
Qualifications needed to listening to Metalica,
1, You have to drink Beer, not light beer, not no mix cool-aid alcohol water, but BEER and at list a 6-PACK!
2, You need to own/drive a American Big Azz Truck, no Toyota Tacoma, no Nissan Frontier, Tundra & Titen, maybe if it’s a lifted 4X4 with Super Swamper’s… Maybe…
3, You gotta eat Red Meat, bloody if possible, and you need to eat at lest a pound or two…
4, You need to be able to hold you own in a BAR FIGHT! No wussy’s!
5, You need to be able to ID most firer-arms, and be a man handling a Shoot-Gun!
6, You gotta Love Old School Muscle Car Iron, Hot Rods, and V-8 with Big Horse Power!
7, You must know how to ride a Motor Cycle!
8, You need to own/drive a performance car and be able to drive it as it was made to be driven. No dog and pony shows! Year dose not matter, first chose American make, but some Euro’s and Japanese accepted…
9, Bro’s before Holes… Unless it’s your wife or she’s your baby’s mama’s, but still she needs to understand…
10, And most importantly Know what the hell you are listening to…
This is what is expected from any one that listen’s to Metalica, if a chick can hold her own she’s cool, but a real girl, none of that other side of the team crap.
And before you start, I’m a Mexican out of So.Cal. L.A. and yes I am a BAD-ASS!!!!
01/20, 11:42 PM
posted by:
yarddog82abn
The more out of 10 you got the better off you are. If you have no points or to little it doesn’t mean you can’t listen to Metalica, it just means you got something to work on. And if you don’t like none of the things that are pointed out, you just gay, their is no other way to say it.
01/21, 4:36 AM
posted by:
Mutant@DCX
This was never the way HRR planned
Not his intention
got so brave, drink in hand
Lost his discretion
It’s not what, he is used to
HRR kissed a boy and he liked it
The taste of his ball sack
He kissed a boy just to try it
He hopes his boyfriend don’t mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don’t mean HRR in love tonight
He kissed a boy and he liked it
He liked it
01/21, 9:39 AM
posted by:
Zcarsales
Which proves my point. Bread and Circuses.