2016 Toyota Prius vs. 2016 Ford C-Max

If you're looking for a hybrid, we'd like to say there's a wide variety out there and it's just a matter of taste, but when you look at the vehicles in this class, there's the Toyota Prius and then there's a slew of imitators. For example, in the side-by-side comparison of the 2016 Toyota Prius vs. 2016 Ford C-Max hybrid, on the one hand you have a vehicle that has won a safety award and gets an industry-leading fuel economy in the 2016 Prius, and on the other you have a vehicle that will cost you more over the lifetime of the car, with its lower fuel economy.

The 2016 Ford C-Max is a bulkier car, with passenger room that approaches 100 cubic feet, and a base curb weight that is also very midsize sedan-like at over 3,600 pounds. The 2016 Prius holds about 93.1 cubic feet of passengers, but what it might lack in size it more than makes up for with its class-leading 54 mpg city, 50 mpg highway and its slick-handling, with a 33.5-foot curb-to-curb turning circle. The 2016 C-Max falls back into the pack with its less-efficient 42 mpg city, 37 mpg highway and a turning circle that is plodding in comparison at 38 feet.