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I really don't care that I catch all kinds of criticism for buying a Toyota Prius
Yaho ^ | 30 July 2016

Posted on 07/31/2016 8:10:22 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

I would wager that even if you're someone who bleeds Ferrari red and has bones made from old Chevrolet Camaros, you would consider buying a Prius, if you honestly considered the decision..... Seeing it actually happen in reality is another story. What a glorious car. I don't care if it's the automotive equivalent of eating low-fat plain yogurt. I'm happy to suffer that pain. Besides, it's a comfortable car. The seats aren't benches of wood. You can make the AC blow as hard as you want. It can play classic rock, and play it sort of loud.

The Prius cultivates in the driver the closest thing to a condition of peace I've ever experienced behind the wheel. It also makes you a better citizen: You embrace the speed limit... I don't even think this is demographic destiny. The Prius isn't really an expensive car. You can be a tree-hugging liberal and get one and that makes sense. But I don't know why someone who leans rights and wants to chop down a lot of trees wouldn't want to spend less than $250 a year on gas.

Beyond that, all the Prius haters are completely misguided in their hatred — but not because the Prius is a magnificent car deceptively cloaked in sheets of boring. Rather, because the Prius is the first successful car that isn't trying to be a car.

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To: dfwgator

Even better if linked to a nuclear power plant =)

(Mr. Fission, anyone?)


81 posted on 07/31/2016 9:32:12 AM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: CodeToad

Prius = 58 city / 53 highway
Corolla = 30 city / 42 highway

Say even balance of both, 50.5 mpg Prius, 36 mpg Corolla.

Gasoline consumption per 150,000 miles (ten year life) is 2970 gallons for the Prius, 4267 for the Corolla, a difference of 1196 (say 1200 gallons). If the price of the Prius is 7000 more, gas would have to be 7000/1200 = $5.83 dollar per gallon to break even. This ignores the price of money, which favors the Corolla, because Prius is upfront money.

If I assign a cost of money to the $7000 up front cost at 6% per year, the price of gas would have $7.92 per gallon to break even. YMMV.

Some people prefer the Prius. Good for them.


82 posted on 07/31/2016 9:32:33 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: Windflier

Please tell us what you drive?

And show how you derive value from the experience?


83 posted on 07/31/2016 9:33:41 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I don’t have a problem with people who own a TOYOTA Prius. Good for them. I have a problem with those environmentalist wacko, “Prius owners” who refer to the car they supposedly own as being a HONDA Prius.


84 posted on 07/31/2016 9:34:36 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I used 27mpg for the Corolla. If it is well over 30mpg then it has a 100,000 mile advantage over the Pious.

The wife had a Corolla for a work provided car. It wasn’t bad. It isn’t a BMW, but it did well overall. For comfort and ride, not to mention safety, I’d take a Corolla over a Pious any day. I’d say the Corolla is one of the best small cars on the road, especially at $22,000.


85 posted on 07/31/2016 9:36:18 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

325?
EPA is like 22-26??
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Maybe it was 75. It was several/many years ago. The point is that if you have to hold the pedal down in the Prius its mileage goes down whereas the BMW stays nearly the same. When they say hwy mileage they don’t say at what actual speed.


86 posted on 07/31/2016 9:46:43 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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To: CodeToad

I used to commute about 70 miles a day, and drove a Corolla for 250,000 miles. Made it past the moon. A great commuter car. Gas and go. Fantastic car.


87 posted on 07/31/2016 9:47:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Please tell us what you drive? And show how you derive value from the experience?”

Request denied.

I don’t have to justify my choice of vehicle simply because I reject the Prius and all the other tree hugging, feel good, agenda driven technology that’s being pushed by the globalist left.

Fortunately, I’m still free enough to vote against the collectivists with my wallet.

If you’re comfortable spending your dollars to support that agenda because it’s only a car to you, well, so be it.


88 posted on 07/31/2016 9:49:54 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: glorgau
When you buy a Prius, you are required to go 5 miles below the limit when in the left lane.

Most truthful statement today, so far.

89 posted on 07/31/2016 9:51:59 AM PDT by Digger
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To: DesertRhino
I make a lot of assumptions about a person by the car they drive. Maybe I'm wrong, but since I'll never meet 99% of them, the only impression I get is from their car.

I suspect the same is true of their impressions of me.

And in any case, it's a personal choice. I prefer to put my money into fine automobiles rather than econoboxes. I had enough junkers and crap cars when I was growing up. Once I started to make it on my own, I said "Never again."

90 posted on 07/31/2016 9:52:04 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: JPJones
That's not offensive. The American cars are typically made by union workers who are encouraged by their union bosses to vote the straight Democrat ticket and funnel tens of millions of dollars to the likes of Crooked Hillary.

I'll take my "Japanese" car made in Tennessee by well paid non-union workers in a red state. I support capitalism. Thank you very much.

I identify with the poster here. I don't own a Prius but might consider one down the road. I also go to Whole Foods because I like to eat well and I buy Apple products because they are well made, designed by Americans and perform extraordinarily well. I hope it irritates liberals to no end that conservatives are co-opting their trendiness on their own terms.

91 posted on 07/31/2016 10:03:00 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: JPJones
-—Don’t buy Jap cars-—

Bought my first one in 1988...

I would have bought American except they were complete and total garbage...

How many American car manufacturer can build a car that at a quarter million miles still run like a champ with basic maintenance ?

92 posted on 07/31/2016 10:04:47 AM PDT by Popman (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: arthurus
I drive a CB250 17 miles to work. It gets 70+ mpg. It seems to be fairly economical.

Even if you are very careful motorcycles have a terrible safety record (and mile for mile bicycles are probably worse). Many drivers fail to see them and there is little protection in an accident. The cost of one hospital visit will negate any savings. Traveling in a 4 wheel car is so significantly safer it can't be ignored.

In poor countries, scooters are the norm. The people are all banged up and scarred from scooter accidents.

93 posted on 07/31/2016 10:08:51 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Why not go all the way and get a SMART CAR? HEH HEH,And the fact that you had to vanity this tells me something. Nader thought the Corvair was unsafe, trading safety for economy.....Hmmmm


94 posted on 07/31/2016 10:09:39 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
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95 posted on 07/31/2016 10:21:20 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Popman

“How many American car manufacturer can build a car that at a quarter million miles still run like a champ with basic maintenance ?”

None.


96 posted on 07/31/2016 10:35:43 AM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: Vinnie

“(plural for Prius=Priui?)”

I believe that the plural of radius is radii, so I would suggest that the plural of Prius should be Prii. Just my 2 cents worth.


97 posted on 07/31/2016 10:36:39 AM PDT by mouske
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To: DUMBGRUNT

How many bags of cement will it haul? Or 4x8 sheets of plywood?


98 posted on 07/31/2016 10:50:33 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: mouske

Priapus?


99 posted on 07/31/2016 10:52:04 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: kaktuskid
How many bags of cement will it haul? Or 4x8 sheets of plywood?

If i had a +$50K truck, I probably would just have it delivered..

100 posted on 07/31/2016 10:56:09 AM PDT by EVO X
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