http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?p=739 Energy to save our Environment, our Economy, ... ourselves! Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?p=739&cpage=1#comment-60 Tony B. Tue, 12 May 2009 04:53:05 +0000 ?p=739#comment-60 If it was offered in manual transmission with just a bit more ground clearance i wouldn't mind spending 30k for it. The 2010 version has only 5.5" of ground clearance which is still a bit higher than 2nd gen. yet still not sufficient enough to successfully get out of my underground garage (would end up stuck on the priuses belly). Also, for a successful handling in snow and ice conditions nothing works better that manual transmission so that you can "feel" with the car and become "one" with it. So, 7" ground clearance and manual transmission would have made me a prius buyer. Really wish so much to own one... Maybe toyota does something with these issues for the future models. Gotta be patient and wait :( If it was offered in manual transmission with just a bit more ground clearance i wouldn't mind spending 30k for it. The 2010 version has only 5.5" of ground clearance which is still a bit higher than 2nd gen. yet still not sufficient enough to successfully get out of my underground garage (would end up stuck on the priuses belly). Also, for a successful handling in snow and ice conditions nothing works better that manual transmission so that you can "feel" with the car and become "one" with it. So, 7" ground clearance and manual transmission would have made me a prius buyer. Really wish so much to own one... Maybe toyota does something with these issues for the future models. Gotta be patient and wait :(

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