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    Toyota Toyota Advice Toyota Prius Toyota Prius Advice Toyota Prius 2008 Honda Honda Advice Honda Civic Honda Civic Advice Honda Civic 1986
    YOU mentioned recently that the batteries in the Toyota Prius would last the life of the car. What is the life of a car? Is the life of the Prius the same as my previous car, a Honda Civic Shuttle, which was put out to pasture after 22 years and 300,000km and still going strong?
    Answered by CarsGuide
    24 July 2008
    CarsGuide team

    GOOD question. How long is a piece of string? I doubt that a car company would want, or could answer your question. How do you define the life of a car -- does its life end when it finally snuffs out going down the driveway? Perhaps it's when it is worn beyond reasonable fixing? Is it simply when the warranty expires? It's probably none of these, but I'd expect a car to do 250,000km without a major failure of the main components. Many cars will do more, as your Honda Shuttle did, but is it reasonable to expect a car to go forever? I recall in the 1950s it was common to have to rebuild an engine after 60,000km or so. We don't do that now because of improvements in technology.

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