Daily Auto News Consumer Reports: Toyota Prius is the Best Value on the Road
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The most cost-effective car you can buy in 2009, according to Consumer Reports, is the Toyota Prius.
“To determine the best car values,” Consumer Reports explains, “We looked at our overall road-test scores, five-year owner-cost estimates, and predicted reliability Ratings for each of the more than 300 vehicles we’ve recently tested. We divided each vehicle’s five-year owner cost by its overall road-test score to get the cost of each test-score point, or what we call ‘bucks per bang.’ The lower the cost, the better.” The Prius “came in with the best bucks-per-bang cost of $325, thanks to one of the lower owner-cost estimates in the list-$26,250 over five years-and a relatively high road-test score of 80 points out of 100.”
Autoblog comments, “While perusing the results, we noticed the complete absence of any American automobiles on the Best Value list. We’d expect to see horrible performances from such vehicles as the HUMMER H2, which CR says will cost its owners $82,250 after just five years of ownership, but we’re a little surprised to see that cars like the Ford Fusion or Chevy Malibu couldn’t crack the top 5 family sedan list.”
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