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Toyota Prius - Reliability & safety

The Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid hasn’t been tested by EuroNCAP yet, although it has a solid array of standard safety systems

Reliability and Safety rating

4.7

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The Toyota Prius is too new to have appeared in the Driver Power ownership survey, and Euro NCAP hasn’t tested it yet, so there’s not much reliability or safety data, but Toyota’s eighth place in the Driver Power manufacturer rankings is cause for optimism. All models come with the same safety and assistance kit, including ‘Proactive Driving Assist’, which helps with corner braking and uses other systems including cameras that can add a bit of steering or braking input if they detect a possible collision. 

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Adaptive cruise control and lane-departure alert are well implemented in the Prius and we found them to be less intrusive than in the previous generation, while still offering the same degree of protection on high-speed roads.

Key standard safety featuresEuro NCAP safety ratings
  • Pre-collision system
  • Adaptive cruise control
  • Lane Change assist
  • Lane departure warning
  • Proactive driving assist
  • N/A

Warranty

The Toyota warranty is three years no matter what, but it can be extended with servicing at a Toyota dealer for up to 10 years or 100,000 miles. At that point it can be described as the best warranty of any car maker for UK customers, which shows how confident the brand is about its cars’ reliability when they’ve been maintained correctly.

Servicing

Servicing costs are around £30 a month if you take up a three-year plan, which is about the average for most manufacturers in this sector of the market. It means that the warranty is maintained and that will also help mitigate the car’s depreciation.

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