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Septembersrain · 07-23-2013, 07:39 PM

I was about to attempt to test drive a Corolla right?
Then I sat in it and I was like.. "I suddenly feel like a soccer mom".

That was it for me entertaining that idea.

nookandcrannycar · 07-23-2013, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Septembersrain

I was about to attempt to test drive a Corolla right?
Then I sat in it and I was like.. "I suddenly feel like a soccer mom".

That was it for me entertaining that idea.

nookandcrannycar · 07-23-2013, 10:25 PM

The Yaris Towing 1000 lbs? thread (and more specifically the Herbie's World tour link) prompted me to search re quite a few different possibilities.

One search unearthed a trailer that pops open into a tent. This trailer can even be towed by a motorcycle. One of these searches led me to type 'Prius RV' and I found the site sueanneonline.blogspot.com. I read one or two of her pages, and the most interesting thing I uncovered is that the Prius (because it is a hybrid, and re how the Toyota hybrid system works) can be used as a sort of climate controlled tent (IF you find the natural climate to be too hot or too cold. Sue Anne describes what can be done -- set the climate control (engine off) to the desired temperature and go to sleep. When the battery drains enough to need the engine, the car starts without any driver input and then runs only 4 minutes out of every half hour to keep the climate system working. The great thing is, IMO, having such a portable climate controlled environment to doze off in....near a beach....way up in the mountains.....out in the desert....IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE....NEARLY ANYWHERE close to a paved road. This really appeals to me. I ended up saving more of her pages.

Weeks later, I returned to this subject and read just a bit more of her blog. She keeps her bed as a permanent fixture when traveling (it isn't inflatable). That is too conspicuous to suit me. I started looking at what some other people had come up with. One guy on You Tube took a brand new Prius V and removed the rear seats. He then built strong reinforced boxes (with lids) that level the load area and bolt in the same way the seats are anchored and in the same location. He also constructed an easily removable platform (one each for driver and passenger sides) that extend from the edge of each box to the back of each front seat. His set up appealed to me more than Sue Anne's because his solution keeps 'everything behind the front seats' and can be covered by a tarp or something similar. Humans can adapt pretty easily and also easily communicate (with words) their displeasure to other humans. Given this, one might ask why the owner would go to such lengths to create a bed for himself and his wife (for camping trips). The answer is that he also created it for year round comfort for their 100 pound dog !

I then looked into how well a Prius V would fit in my garage (given the other items I need to house there), and it would be, by just a bit, too tight a fit to utilize in a comfortable manner. Plus, the standard Prius has better fuel economy than the Prius V. The standard Prius also can utilize a Habitent (designed for the standard Prius, fits on the Honda Insight, and doesn't fit on the Prius V or the Prius C), I started searching for solutions that would allow the use of the standard Prius.

I eventually found another website where someone had taken the 'extending the platform to the back of the front seat concept' that the Prius V owner had utilized and applied it to a standard Prius. Yet another Prius owner (in the comments on that STANDARD Prius owner's site) wrote that he had accomplished the same thing by filling up the rear passenger footwell with a backpack (and other things already in the car) and then putting a particular inflatable Coleman mattress on top of that. I thought THAT is the solution I prefer.

A few days ago I was reading more of the saved pages from sueanneonline.blogspot.com and noticed (in the comments) THAT THE GIRL FROM THE HERBIE'S WORLD TOUR couple had posted a comment!

I still have a fair amount of non camping 'Yaris Travel' that I want to do. I plan to keep my Yaris as a DD until it has (probably) between 375,000 and 400,000 miles on the odometer. There is quite a bit of development going on in my area right now (and into the near future). This development should play itself out by the time I get to that mileage level with my Yaris. If I don't end up liking the effects of the coming development, I'll likely sell my house and buy one closer to Lake Conroe (with more garage space.....enough for the Yaris as a non DD

, and more storage), and buy a standard Prius. If I decide to keep my house, I'll likely still get a standard Prius and will have to come up with some other solution re storing my Yaris. I can't stand the thought of no longer owning a manual transmission car (and especially one that has served me so well), even if I'm no longer using it as a DD!

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