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Dwayne Johnson: Guys Should Grow a Pair Before Driving a Hybrid
Fox News ^ | May 04, 2011 | Hollie McKay

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."

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To: Nightbird

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?


81 posted on 05/04/2011 9:43:05 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: antiRepublicrat

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.”


82 posted on 05/04/2011 9:51:31 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Gore Jr. was arrested about three miles from my house. He was driving a Prius and was drugged up and could have killed somebody. He got bailed out the next day and got a slap on the wrist.

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.

83 posted on 05/04/2011 9:52:34 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (KSM - In Custody, OBL - In Hell, Thank you President Bush...)
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To: Rebelbase
I recall a few years ago at $3+ gallon prices an H3 owning FReeper commented on fueling up at a gas station when a Prius driver on the same pump commented: “I bet you wish you were driving something like this nowadays”, FReeper replied: “No, I still date women”.

lol! My H3 has better gas mileage than my old Buick Terazza was getting, plus, its a stick shift so I have more control.

84 posted on 05/04/2011 9:54:59 AM PDT by smith288 (Peace at all costs gives you tyranny free of charge)
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To: Nightbird

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?


85 posted on 05/04/2011 10:05:57 AM PDT by wardaddy (ok...Trump beating on Obama---Sarah----Michelle.....any of them are ok for now---tain't picky)
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To: antiRepublicrat

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


86 posted on 05/04/2011 10:13:06 AM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: wbill

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


87 posted on 05/04/2011 10:16:22 AM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: 1010RD
When it comes to cars, there do seem to be a lot of safety wusses on FR. More so than with any other topic.

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.

88 posted on 05/04/2011 10:17:47 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (Populism is antithetical to conservatism.)
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To: Dick Vomer

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.


89 posted on 05/04/2011 10:18:51 AM PDT by cjshapi (Proudly posting without a tagline since 2001)
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To: erod

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


90 posted on 05/04/2011 10:20:02 AM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: newfreep

ALWAYS wanted a nice Audi and a all blacked out pick up truck.

Driven a few Audi’s and they are great


91 posted on 05/04/2011 10:21:42 AM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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92 posted on 05/04/2011 10:32:38 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Almost as evil as the Freeper Criminal Mastermind)
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To: MamaTexan
Rules! I do love rules.

And Dwayne Johnson


93 posted on 05/04/2011 10:44:15 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Almost as evil as the Freeper Criminal Mastermind)
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To: Mannaggia l'America
(I'm a guy who drives a pick up!)

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.

94 posted on 05/04/2011 10:47:09 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The American taxpayer cannot support the tax and spend habits of DC.)
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To: wbill
see one regularly on my morning commute. It's on a 6-8 lane, 70 mph freeway

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.

95 posted on 05/04/2011 10:47:24 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Nightbird

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.


96 posted on 05/04/2011 10:49:39 AM PDT by patton (I am sure that I have done dumber things in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
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To: Arrowhead1952
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.

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.

97 posted on 05/04/2011 10:50:54 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: TheOldLady
Rules! I do love rules. And Dwayne Johnson

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.

-----

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.

98 posted on 05/04/2011 10:52:38 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am ~Person~ as created by the Law of Nature, not a 'person' as created by the laws of Man)
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To: MamaTexan

;-)

Sometimes I laugh so hard here at Free Republic that I scare the cats.

Dwayne Johnson — [swoon]

Conservative, nice, gorgeous. Sigh...


99 posted on 05/04/2011 10:59:31 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Almost as evil as the Freeper Criminal Mastermind)
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To: Drawsing

“Today men with office jobs use pickups as a kind of pseudo symbol of masculinity.

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.


100 posted on 05/04/2011 11:04:57 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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