The Prius has been selling well for years, and nobody except Cursitor Doom has ever complained about their performance (and neither he nor Jim Thompso n would ever have driven one).
One of our acquaintances drove one for years and didn't complain about it. He hasn't got it any more, but he'd got it under a complicated arrangement with his employer, and it went away when he stopped being director of the a cademic unit involved - being director is a thankless task, and gets passed around between the eligible academics, who all recognise that somebody has to do it, but hope that it isn't them.