Model years Toyota Prius Prime
2017 Toyota Prius Prime
Complaints about this year name hit far more often than the model's other years — 15% of them, about 38× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 143 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 10 |
| Involving a crash | 20 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 54 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- crack — 13% of complaints, 33× usual
- speed — 13% of complaints, 31× usual
- see — 13% of complaints, 31× usual
What owners wrote
CAR WAS HIT BY FLYING DEBRIS WHICH PRODUCED LARGE CRACK IN WINDSHIELD. VEHICLE WAS TRAVELING DOWN TWO LANE HIGHWAY AT LEGAL SPEED.
WINDSHIELD DEVELOPED A CRACK WHICH STARTED EXPANDING RAPIDLY DUE TO HEAT. DEALER REP SAYS ITS DUE TO A ROCK HIT MAYBE BUT THE GLASS DOES NOT SEEM STRONG ENOUGH AS IT WAS THE FIRST BATCH OF PRIUS PRIMES RELEASED IN NOV 2017 AND I GOT MINE FROM THAT BATCH.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Prius Prime was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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