It's hardly a failure - you've got an economic, decently large car with great reliablity (why do you think all these taxi drivers have them?). Wait... maybe that 07 in your username isn't about the Impreza year, but about your age... that would explain a lot.
You see, rather than going with the mainstream and hate on the Toyota Prius I like to express my own opinion and yes, that means that I do hate them. Deal with it. OT: With that being said I'm very confused as to what Toyota wants to achieve with their strange design language. Nearly all of their new cars look like they're targeted towards young edgy Japanese men...
As for my least favourite car, it's the 1st gen VW Type 2. Not that it's this bad, it's just not a car where you'd spend €10k on a rolling shell, and its durability wasn't as good as claimed (150kkm ones often needed rebuilds, and a past owner of a '64 I know ground his motor down on a highway in the late 60s). Wait, isn't the system supposed to stop anybody writing in an age below 13 from joining the forum?
Now that is what I want to see with people, not going with the cookie cutter popular opinion, but say their own opinion.
Based on the dealer loaner my first cousin twice removed (or something like that) used to drive for some time, it looks much better in dark blue. Unfortunately, though probably purposely, that's the most expensive color you can have a Prius in. --- Post updated --- Nothing that bad about it. You buy a dirt-cheap car, you get dirt-poor quality.
Why did you even respond to my first post then? That's a thing I don't really get about cars today, why do prices for different colors vary that much? I mean I get it that a metallic paintjob costs more but for unicolors(?) it doesn't make much sense. One example: Mercedes offers a variety of boring colors, all of which cost extra (apart from white, gray and black maybe) regardless of metallic, matte etc. or not. Also the only new car available in purple is the VW Tiguan (but only w/o the R-Package because why not?). Even Dodge seems to have dropped Plum Crazy Purple...
Because: A: These colors are rare, so the economy of scale is limited, B: These colors look good enough to be paid extra for.
Only because they are overpriced, meaning fewer people buy it, creating the economy of scale you talk about. They just want to pull in some extra money for it.
I don't get why they make plenty of Toyotas like they took drugs. (2019 RAV4, 2017 Corolla, 2016 Mirai, Prius IV, etc.)
I will agree that the quality control on the Tesla is pretty mediocre. However, the performance is not. I got a ride in a Tesla Model 3, and hot damn that thing is fast. I've never felt anything like it. You might find this interesting. Also, I drive a Prius (2010, 3rd gen), and it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It makes the same power as a Corolla (134 horsepower), and has the same 0-60 time (9.8 seconds). So it's essentially a Corolla that gets 20 MPG better. I'll agree, the 4th gen Prius is rather ugly.
The problem with that is that it conflates different types of pollution by its attempt to convert everything into CO2 emissions, which I actually never mentioned. I was focused specifically on China's "issues", i.e. dumping poison into the groundwater (bye-bye arable land; starting to see why they need that stupid one-child-only policy yet?) while treating their workers like dirt, which can't be accurately measured in terms of CO2 emissions. First, it's not all about speed, but even if it is that's still pretty slow. Faster than my car, but still. If you believe Car & Driver, it's hideously boring, with literally zero steering feel and endless understeer. I don't remember it being quite that quick either, but now I can't find the issue where they tested it.
