Model years to avoid

Toyota Prius Prime

What it says about you

Opinion

You commute on electricity and road-trip on petrol, and you have worked out exactly where the crossover is. You could tell me your electric-only mileage right now.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

8 model years on record, 214 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has 1. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.

The years to look at closely: 2017 (hit). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

Every year

  1. 2024 4 recalls 11 complaints
  2. 2023 4 recalls 4 complaints
  3. 2022 1 recall 8 complaints
  4. 2021 0 recalls 10 complaints
  5. 2020 1 recall 16 complaints
  6. 2019 1 recall 8 complaints
  7. 2018 0 recalls 14 complaints
  8. 2017 hit 143 complaints

What does a Toyota Prius Prime say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.