Agree. My 2003 Prius was my favorite car ever. Fantastic mileage, and it just worked. If only I'd had a cage around the (very expensive!) catalytic converter, I might still have it.

I felt the same about our 2007 Prius. It never really had any serious problems until we replaced it this year. We ran into one issue this year but it was a known thing that was fairly straightforward to replace, and although not cheap, not that expensive.

My wife wanted to replace it with a newer model because she wanted bluetooth. But I miss my old car -- it was amazingly reliable.

I had a 2004 and I fully agree. Unfortunately had to get rid of it at around 250K miles after some bastards stole the catalytic converter.