New Head Gasket and battery...or start over, need advice.

Get a used matrix or vibe...
I did and zero problems....

 

Yeah depending upon what engine you're talking about If you got that big 2.4 l thing boy you're back in Camry mileage yeah I went to generation twos and they have no problems pretty much I mean they're very easy to settle and sort everything out and then drive hundreds of thousands of miles without doing anything but tires so it's as good as a Corolla The matrix and the vibe similar chassis to the Prius I guess one of them has the 1 z z engine in it. Which is the predecessor to the two ZZ in the Corolla and the FXE in the generation 3 Prius but the vibe and the 1z combo is very decent. To be more equal to the Prius I would probably choose the Scion XA or anything with the 1 NZ

 

I mostly agree..... except..... person in my subdivision has broke down gen 2 with bad brakes and shot traction battery... been sitting for months...

 

Well that's right and what did he buy a Camaro or you know whatever so SUV thing or a big truck He made the choice not to fix that now it's sitting I imagine he's going to sell it or something's going to happen because usually the way it goes It depends too if it's a cloth interior base I mean you know come on all the ones I buy are leather and loaded generally I have a cloth that's above a base and it's a work vehicle and it's been humming along for about 8 years now with no problems we put attraction battery when I got it a new one and I put a used brake actuator years ago sent in this has no cat in it I don't have emissions And that piece of junk gets about 420 mi on a tank full or to the flashing light or whatever you call it

 

They bought a Tesla

 

Oh no I won't be doing any of that for a while not till we have much more choices battery technology is fixing to change big time I think Just not been the right time yet I know people that have no charging at their townhomes and at their homes they're paying $24 at Sheetz It's about what I pay for fuel for the Prius to go almost 500 mi 420 whatever it is and they're charging twice a day sometimes because now all of these electric cars are your mobile office everybody keeps the air conditioner running 24/7 I know people that have Tesla's plugged in at their house and they're air conditioned garages and the cars plugged in on and running with the cooling system running 24/7 holy Jesus that's what this is about energy efficiency what are you kidding me these people have their air conditioners in these things running 24/7 while they're plugged up sitting in charging them with the air running not even bothered to go into the sheets where there's plenty air conditioning oh no too funny when this is ready for prime time Toyota will be in the game and all of that but this $50,000 crap oh man we got to get that almost sliced in half and then buying these things used I mean are you kidding me It's not like you can just change these batteries and stuff a lot of these are not anything like that but I hear GM is coming out with some batteries that begin with a u some kind of modular design blah blah blah supposed to make it easier to change batteries and everything type situations I have a volt and I'm on the volt form and GM is big into this type of battery business was just reading more about it this morning I do like the little bolt an owner a guy on here has one he says the best 22 grand he's ever spent or something along those lines and I can believe it The volt is a very good car it just doesn't go very far on electricity and the battery is huge in ways a bunch so I guess there's a problem getting 60 or 90 mi of range before you get to gas the whole car would be pretty much mostly a battery you might as well go on and get the other 170 mi and be all electric that some type of sweet spot or something that this works reasonably at and when you go over whatever that is things get real silly I guess I don't really know but must be something Why are all these electric hybrids only going 30 mi or maybe 45 now on the overnight charge and then the rest is on gas running a generator or an engine or something. I would think the manufacturers would at least try for the average person's driving per day I think in America that's about 40 mi 45 then the volt does 30 Great

 

They buy what ever they want.... pretty sure they have a few million in the bank.............. retired attourneys....
They did buy the Gen 2 new just for the heck of it.... and it sits on the end of the four car garage and I asked the guy if he wanted to sell it....said it's his wife's car.... I bought a used Marix ($4500) 165,000 when I got rid of my Gen 3.... it has 290,000 now and hasn't had a single issue..... about .5 quart oil in 5000 miles... and aprox 35 mpg.
It does have a standard trani and I have been very happy with it.... orginal AC still works, paint perfect and garaged since new.
But if I ever did buy a prius again it would be a Gen 2..........
They live in the back of the subdivision... I live in the front with the other poor people.... This neighboorhood is filled with Cadillacs, BMW's, Mercedes..... and many Teslas