"I'm deader than a doornail. But what gas mileage I used to get!"
And this is news? Sheeez...
Given the title I was hoping for crash pics.
"I'm deader than a doornail. But what gas mileage I used to get!"
Ah, the Prius. It just screams, "I'm a vegan weenie!"
I'd settle for a Hummer inside a Prius. I hope the seats fold back.
The whole thing is stupid... the premium people pay to get a Hybrid pretty much wipes out the savings from the improved mileage.
I have my eye on the Accord Hybrid... goes 0 to 60 in 6 seconds.
Somehow the math here ain't quite right. Oh, I forgot, here in madison, they have outcome-based eddycation so that anything pretty much equals anything else...as long as it make you feel good.
I recall reading something in one of Rush's newsletters that prius-owners were ticked because their milage was any better than a regular cars.
Oh yeah, well a diesel hybrid is way more efficient, but the oil companies won't acknowledge that...and to think, they used to pump the components of gasoline back into the ground because they were undesireable by-products...
BTW the price of diesel in my area has stayed fairly constant for the last 4-5 weeks while gasoline prices have rocket, the local farmers just laugh at everyone driving a gas powered rig...!
"Waiting List For Hybrids Pushing Up Cost"
What moron wrote this headline. It's not the waiting list that pushes up prices, it's the high demand relative to the short supply.
Wouldn't it be nice if just once a journalism major wandered into an economics class. Probably too much to ask
She has a 4 year old car with 19,000 miles? She needs a bicycle.
Rush Limbaugh foolishly insisted on telling his listeners to get the biggest SUV. This has been proved to have been deadly wrong for our country, and for the individuals who listened to Rush. Please don't take me wrong, I don't care for the "environmental Wackos" as Rush likes to calls them, however, our national energy security and efficiency is a whole different thing. Blow hard radio talk people like Rush don't have the experience to encourage people to buy big gas guzzlers even if the supply is going down, and the refinery capacity in this country is shirking. Rush is correct more than 90% of the time about most issues, but on his diatribe regarding the big & and bigger SUV, he did this country a disservice. He had this funny cowboy song about the little idiot guy buying a Yogo, and the big man buying a huge SUV, and he runs over the little man.
What I find kind of amusing about this article is that when the 8th-generation Honda Civic arrives this Fall, you'll get a car that is almost as roomy as the current Prius, gets decent performance (thanks to a new 140 bhp 1.8-liter I-4 engine with variable valve timing), better fuel efficiency than the current Civic, and costs several thousand less than a Prius. And you don't have to deal with the hassles of the longevity of the hybrid drivetrain, either.
I'm confused. She buys it for around $20k and is selling it for $15k. According to my elementary school arithmatic, she is selling the car for LESS than she paid for it, not more.
Fours years old with 19K, does she live in Pasadena?
In other words, she got tired of her first Prius after only 19,000 miles.
Even with high gas prices I still want an SUV. This is America !
This is truly the age of the ugly car and the ugly car name.