GTP Cool Wall: 2003-2009 Toyota Prius

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2003-2009 Toyota Prius

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Crooooooow
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How about something a little more recent than a 6 year old article from a source renown for bias. Yes, they claim to be citing research but don't really cite the source, only using a cherry picked quote.

I know you love to troll, but you'll need to do better than that.
 
xXKingJoshXx
Unless you drive a Sunbird, in which case the first one is false because the car will break down while revving, thus blocking the road. The second one is irrelevant because, well, it's a Sunbird. The third is false because no Prius owner is going to feel self conscious about a 20 year old rust bucket revving the snot out of their engine next to them when they have a new car that doesn't fall apart. Also, they probably couldn't hear it anyways over their music, or if they could, they'd think it was the engine in the Sunbird acting up.

Also, if you were insecure/self conscious, you wouldn't be driving a Prius. You'd be driving something along the lines of this:

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Still trying to find out where I said I drive a "sunbird".... Don't think sunbirds look like this:

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Obviously if you're in a Geo Metro and you rev your car you look stupid. But there's nothing wrong a little blip of the throttle from a 5.7 V8. It's not like I'm riding redline the whole time. Just a little something to let the Prius owner know what he's missing :cool:
 
Harry6784
Still trying to find out where I said I drive a "sunbird".... Don't think sunbirds look like this:
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Still trying to find out where I said it was you that was driving the Sunbird. :rolleyes:


Obviously if you're in a Geo Metro and you rev your car you look stupid. But there's nothing wrong a little blip of the throttle from a 5.7 V8. It's not like I'm riding redline the whole time. Just a little something to let the Prius owner know what he's missing :cool:
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Prius owners usually buy their cars for better MPG, lower emissions, and because they do it practically. I don't see any car with a 5.7 V8 doing that.
 
xXKingJoshXx
Still trying to find out where I said it was you that was driving the Sunbird. :rolleyes:
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xXKingJoshXx
Unless you drive a Sunbird
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xXKingJoshXx
Prius owners usually buy their cars for better MPG, lower emissions, and because they do it practically. I don't see any car with a 5.7 V8 doing that.
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And I got my car for better SPG (smiler per gallon), louder emissions and because I'm a car enthusiast. I don't see any hybrid doing that.
 
Still trying to figure out how "Unless you drive a Sunbird" = "You drive a Sunbird, so all those points are invalid".

Harry6784
And I got my car for better SPG (smiler per gallon), louder emissions and because I'm a car enthusiast. I don't see any hybrid doing that.
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So you're admitting that the Prius owner isn't missing anything by you revving the engine next to them, then? And a Prius owner can get more "SPG" if getting more MPG gives them smiles...
 
Then I have no idea where you got the sunbird from. So if I don't drive it then who were you referring to :lol:

I'm simply exploiting the difference between our cars by revving at him. He can do the same to me by driving by while I fill up, if that's what keeps his SPG's up...
 
Harry6784
Then I have no idea where you got the sunbird from. So if I don't drive it then who were you referring to :lol:
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Our very own anti-technology, pony, and luxury crusader, White & Nerdy.
 
I'd rather look like a tool while having fun even if it means burning more gas than look like an average person in a boring car going back to work every day going no where with their life. Even if it means better fuel economy. Fun is more important than MPG's, at least to me. I'm not saying you can't have fun with a Prius, but it would be a lot harder, and it just doesn't have the sound I love.
 
Slashfan
I'd rather look like a tool while having fun even if it means burning more gas than look like an average person in a boring car going back to work every day going no where with their life. Even if it means better fuel economy. Fun is more important than MPG's, at least to me. I'm not saying you can't have fun with a Prius, but it would be a lot harder, and it just doesn't have the sound I love.
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I can think of a way :)

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Toyotas of SomeDude's choosing: 97 MR2 GTS, Sprinter Trueno, FJ Cruiser, That thing that made a cameo in Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3! (hint: it involves an important food in bakeries.)

This thing? Obviously..
 
A vast majority of people who own cars don't care if it's fun or interesting. They want something that gets good mileage, is safe, and is relatively cheap to own. The Prius ticks all those boxes and then some. Also many car enthusiasts actually think sensibly and buy a car that fits the bill for everyday driving instead of buying something that's "fun", that's why there's probably quite a few enthusiasts that own a Prius.
 
Joey D
A vast majority of people who own cars don't care if it's ... interesting.
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Actually, several people bought them years before $3/gallon gas, telling it me it was "interesting", because it was a different way to drive. Naturally, interesting is different to many people.

Hey, have you guys seen this yet? Totally radicalferaleaglesoaringlibertyawseomefreedom!

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USA! USA! Hayabusa! I mean, USA!
 
Prius Mk3 is pretty cool. Mk2 is not. A decent driver but nothing exciting or cool about it.
 
Pupik
Actually, several people bought them years before $3/gallon gas, telling it me it was "interesting", because it was a different way to drive. Naturally, interesting is different to many people.

Hey, have you guys seen this yet? Totally radicalferaleaglesoaringlibertyawseomefreedom!



USA! USA! Hayabusa! I mean, USA!
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To bad that tank isn't American....
 
-1.458.

Unfortunately, not the most uncool car on the Cool Wall (seriously, why the blank couldn't you guys cooperate just long enough to make this the first car ever in Hell?), but very close.
 
Well, if some people would stop carping about the car and inventing non-existent reasons for its uncoolness, we would have all voted seriously uncool (as I did, despite actually liking the car in question).
 
White & Nerdy
Unfortunately, not the most uncool car on the Cool Wall (seriously, why the blank couldn't you guys cooperate just long enough to make this the first car ever in Hell?), but very close.
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For being the person that runs the Cool Wall, you really don't understand how it works, do you?

Just because me and you think the car is SU, doesn't mean everyone thinks and should vote for SU.
 
> 88 votes for 'Seriously Uncool'

> Not consigned to 'Hell'

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#W&N-world problems


Not being able to take comfort in the fact that so many people gave it the lowest vote available (including myself), and not expecting at least a few votes countering your personal view while putting a dampener on your grand plan? Shock. Horror.
 
Really, I'm not sure what I expected, but seriously, even among hybrids this car is depserately uncool. It might actually be the least cool car ever built. The sheer misguided, misinformed environmentalism imbued in the very sheetmetal of this car makes it more Seriously Uncool than any GM brain fart (Cimarron, Aztek) could ever hope to be.
 
White & Nerdy
Really, I'm not sure what I expected, but seriously, even among hybrids this car is depserately uncool. It might actually be the least cool car ever built. The sheer misguided, misinformed environmentalism imbued in the very sheetmetal of this car makes it more Seriously Uncool than any GM brain fart (Cimarron, Aztek) could ever hope to be.
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Prius logic.
 
Nuclear or hydro.

That's an Insight too, which is way cooler than a Prius.

A Prius is still cooler than a Jeep or almost anything V6 GM.

I say almost because the Regal GT is cool.
 
The picture, of course, ignores the fact that mass-produced electricity produces less emissions and is cheaper per mile than gasoline, simply due to the fact that it is mass produced, and that most Prii are not plug-in, and that the car in the picture is a first-generation Honda Insight, which wasn't a plug-in, at all.
 
But then you forget the things that comic doesn't mention - like all the pollution involved in manufacturing a hybrid or electric's battery, plus the pollution it might produce at the end of its life cycle if not responsibly disposed of. If electrics and hybrids go fully mainstream, and there are people trying hard to make that happen even though it'll push every last drop of coolness out of all mainstream market segments, there's a good chance some of them will end up abandoned and covered in graffiti at the end of a secluded dirt road somewhere, left to leak toxic chemicals into the ground forever.

And that's not even the point. The Prius is possibly the best example of a car being tainted by its owner base - obnoxious liberals who think they're Mother Earth Heroes because they've given up on things like fun, speed, or an aesthetically pleasing exterior in favor of fuel economy and emissions.
 
From what it looks like in this thread, a lot of Prius owners are actual enthusiasts who like the Prius for the technology and gas savings.

They've forgotten more about speed than you've ever even done.
 
Exactly. Forgotten. They're the "It doesn't have to be fun/I'm not going to mod it because it's only a daily driver/family car/temporary wheels while I finish __________" type of enthusiasts.
 
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