2009 Toyota Prius Tops Consumer Reports Best Value List

Well Bartlesville Toyota fans, it looks like the Toyota prius has earned yet another honor. In the recent Annual Auto Issue of Consumer Reports Magazine the Toyota prius was named as the debut recipient of the brand new “Best New Car Value” title.

This title is new this year and one that Consumer Reports offered, along with the magazines traditional rankings of top vehicles, to highlight for consumers the car determined to be the best value across a five year period. According to the press release “To determine which cars are the best values, Consumer Reports looks at its overall road-test scores, five-year owner-cost estimates, and predicted reliability ratings for more than 300 recently tested vehicles. CR then divided each vehicle’s five-year owner-cost by its overall road-test score to get the cost of each test-score point — the lower the cost-per-point, the better the value. To ensure the vehicles named as best values were also models that held up well over time, choices were limited to those with above-average predicted reliability ratings. Consumer Reports’ owner-cost estimates are based on six major elements: depreciation, fuel economy, insurance, interest on financing, maintenance and repair, and sales tax.”

The Prius was selected from among 300 other cars, coming in ahead of the Volkswagon Rabbit, The Honda Fit and the Honda CVX for the overall value title. The Toyota Camry hybrid also scored in the top ten for overall value. Along with being the best overall value the Prius Touring, Toyota camry Hybrid, and Toyota Prius (base) made up all of the top three spots for best values in the family car segment.

Toyota, as a manufacturer, managed to secure 17 of the 41 spots on the top values list making it the most represented make as well. Aside from dominating the best value family car segment, the segments where Toyota scored exceedingly well included ranking highly with the Toyota Corolla LE in the best value small car segment, with the Toyota Matirx in the best value hatchbacks/wagons segment, with both the 4 and 6 cylinder version of the Toyota RAV4 among the small SUVs, and with the Toyota Highlander and Toyota Highlander hybrid among mid-sized SUVs.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Toyota Prius here is a video review from Kelley Blue Book one of the most trusted names in automobiles:

In the Prius Toyota has found a real winner. Of course that should come as no surprise. The number of Toyotas selected among the top values by Consumer Reports is the kind of thing those who know Toyotas have come to expect from the automaker.

If you are interested in looking at new Toyotas and are in the Bartlesville or Tulsa, Oklahoma area my inventory of new Toyota cars, trucks, SUVs, and CUVs is easily accessible and through my brand new technology (one of only fifty in the country and the only Toyota) online car shopping feature where you can complete the Toyota buying process from start to finish on our website.

Take a look at the Prius and some of the other automobiles Toyota is offering these days. I think you will like what you see.

Until tomorrow, have a great day!

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