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Posted on 05/04/2011 7:01:27 AM PDT by eak3
Attention all guys that drive or are intending to drive Toyota’s famous hybrid electric hatchback, the Prius.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson advises you to check your manhood first.
“You can drive a Prius, sure," the star of “Fast Five” told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. But you should also grow testicles before that."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I’m not trying to pile on, but when you bought it what kind of calculation did you make?
I’ve run the numbers and it didn’t seem to add up. Is the resale value that high?
Now I support your right to drive whatever car you like and can afford and I can see how practical it would be for a downtown driver (my Suburban is a nightmare to park), but I don’t think it is safe for the reason you mentioned - it’s the smallest thing on the road other than a bike or pedestrian.
“All said and done, IIHS rates the Smart with its highest rating, Good, in frontal and side-impact tests, and its second-highest, Acceptable, in its rear collision test. So that’s it, right? Not really.
From the KickingTires article “IIHS on the Smart ForTwo: Officially Safe?” author Jim Mateja writes:
“IIHS president Adrian Lund stopped short of saying the Smart is safe.
‘Among the smallest cars, the Smart engineers did their homework and designed a high level of safety into a small package,’ he said. Even so, while small cars are safer than ever, ‘the risk of death is higher in crashes of smaller, lighter models. All things being equal, bigger and heavier is better.’
“In front crash tests, the ForTwo bounced off a barricade like a pinball and could have crossed into another lane of traffic to be struck again. Lund said that because there isn’t a lot of frontal crush space, the Smart is very stiff to prevent intrusion into the passenger compartment. Because of that, it will bounce off what it hits in an impact.”
As for NHTSA results, which are not comparable to IIHS results due to the differences in testing procedures, the ForTwo scored four out of five stars in frontal tests for the driver and three stars for the passenger. Side tests earned five stars; however, a safety concern was issued for side collisions because a driver’s side door unlatched during impact and opened.”
It's good to be famous, or the son of somebody famous.
His Sister, I believe, picked him up from jail in a BMW, although I'm sure it was powered by compressed Unicorn Fart Gas.
lol! My H3 has better gas mileage than my old Buick Terazza was getting, plus, its a stick shift so I have more control.
you’re an exception
a Prius is a like a Mac...most who have them are lefties
so you can expect to take some heat
I used to drive big pickups...3/4 to 1 ton...diesel
but they got too expensive at 150 miles per day driving and I own a company with workers who have my trucks if I need one
so I now drive my wife’s second car after her old Land Cruiser
a 1999 black Porsche cabriolet...Carrera..not Boxster..which ius another “girl car”
word is that caused my penis sto shrink in size but my testicles are just fine...thank God I didn’t get a Corvette eh?
lets put it this way, the wife and I were watching some show and they showed the crash test of a dummy golf cart at 20 MPH and the front was at the back.
Have you got one because I’m just wondering why s defensive over a golf car.
Not having a pop at you and see no reason to.
Now if you like the dummy cars and not mind people laughing at folks who drive them then great but I do think is that they are a piece of crap, they look very sill, they look to be designed for women or girlie men and every man not that many but every man look like a queen driving them
my wife and I were just reading this thread and talking over coffee about these soupped up golf carts.
They’re hilarious and like you said but them on a road where the limit is not over 30 MPH and they’re great but driving those death traps on a highway or even a road where the limit is 50MOH and ten they should be banned.
It was just funny seeing one of those all blocked in at the light and either side of the dum dum car the people were looking at it laughing their asses off
As a kid, I many times got to go for rides in my uncle's TR-3. Damn, I loved that car. I held a grudge against him for years because he sold it the year before I got my license.
And in my time, I've taken dates, my wife, and kids (mine and others) for many rides in my Karmann Ghia and my Honda S2000. Rag top down. Not wearing helmets or Nomex, even. And we all had a great time.
You have a long way to go on your truck. Mine’s at 259k miles.
I just rented a car for a trip because I don’t want to take my truck that far and someone fleeing a robbery smacked into the fiancee’s truck and it’s being repaired. Car handles great but I don’t like being that low.
LOL Neither would I .
Then again I suppose where you come from too, When I had to live up in Boston many men up in the north east were pink shirted fairies where some women were masculine but down here and I bet out in the midwest or AK then it is deemed as men drive cars and trucks not golf carts to be made fun of
ALWAYS wanted a nice Audi and a all blacked out pick up truck.
Driven a few Audi’s and they are great
And Dwayne Johnson
Same here, and my wife would rather drive it than her car. I like to see over the traffic. Being in a low slung car gives me the feeling of my butt dragging on the road and counting the floor bolts on 18 wheelers.
That doesn't make much sense. The Smart gets relatively poor highway mileage due to its aerodynamics. Even worse, the US Smart only gets 33/41, while the European version gets 52/60. There are a lot of bigger cars out there that get over 41 mpg highway.
All I can think of is that if this guy ever gets creamed by an 18 wheeler, the trucker may never know about it until he stops.
They were saying the same thing about small cars in the 70s, but they were deathtraps compared to the Smart.
If the car fits your needs, then I applaud you for performing a requirements definition and life-cycle cost analysis before you bought it. Most people don’t - they buy a car based on emotions.
It was strange in the city when I had one, looking to my left straight at the wheel rim of a truck, straight ahead at the tail lights of the compact car in front of me. On the highway it was far too tempting to drive under the semis.
wolf whistle
Me, too! Although I'm not much into the action-type movies he does, I have seen all the PG movies he's made.
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My favorite line was from Witch Mountain-
"Don't go into the pimped-out fridge, Jack"
I laughed so hard at that one, I scared the kids.
;-)
Sometimes I laugh so hard here at Free Republic that I scare the cats.
Dwayne Johnson — [swoon]
Conservative, nice, gorgeous. Sigh...
“Today men with office jobs use pickups as a kind of pseudo symbol of masculinity.
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Liberal mentality. I don’t know a single person I have ever worked with that owns a pickup with that problem. Not a single one.
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