Prius Variants

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Prius Variants


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Well, to start, they are all Priuses (you can read more about it here)! This Prius Prime looks like it started out as a (ir)regular new Prius that someone took a saws-all to. Also, just because the Prime is a plug-in hybrid, Toyota charges $1,500 more (including cashback). Why do you get more cashback from a plugin hybrid? Also, why is the plugin hybrid more expensive?

This Prius Prime claims to get 640 miles to the tank/batteries, which is really far. However, on episode four of series twelve of Top Gear, Jeremy tried to drive a diesel XJ6 Jaguar from Switzerland to Blackpool. That is a distance of  836 miles, and when he got to Blackpool, there was enough diesel left in the tank to go another 120 miles! Keep in mind, Jeremy was trying to get bad fuel mileage all the way through France by driving with the A/C on, the seat heaters on, etc. He was also driving at about 80 MPH. The Prius' range was calculated in a lab. It will not do that in the real world. Also, you get to drive a Jag, instead of a hatchback thing made out of plastic.

The Prius v is basically a wagon, but you still get just five (4 seats for regular people, one for a cat) seats. That sort of defeats the point of a station wagon, a station wagon should have eleven seats (three rows of bench seats, and two backward sort-of seats in the trunk). And the cargo space is thirty-four cubic feet. A Volvo V60 (which is also a 5 seat station wagon) has forty-three cubic feet. The Volvo may be ten grand more, but the amount of stuff that the Volvo has stock is astonishing! The list is in fact, so huge, I can't put it all here (today) (click here for the site on the V60). The equivalent Prius v doesn't exist! (click here for that page)

The Prius c is a smaller Prius. I have seen the inside of a regular Prius, and it looked pretty cramped. Also, the Prius c, which is smaller than the regular Prius and has the same powertrain gets 48 mpg. The regular Prius gets 54 mpg. How has Toyota made the lighter car (by a quarter ton!) get worse mpg?

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Overly Small Cars

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Overly Small Cars

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I just don't understand them! Not only are they pointless as a car, but they are ugly, and make you look... errrmmm... unlikable...

Some don't even give you great gas mileage. The original SMART car got all of 15 miles-per-gallon. Not only does it cost as much as a '70 Super Bee, but it gets the same fuel mileage. Also, I argue that the Super Bee is better for the earth because it is made out of steel and leather, not plastic and toxic gunk.

And anyway, a car with a shorter wheelbase doesn't actually help city congestion. It is still the same width as a regular car, why not buy a regular car? It's probably cheaper.

If you live in a very dense city like Boston or New York, and you want to get around traffic, why don't you actually go AROUND it? For the same money as that Toyota iQ, you can get a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R ABS KRT edition and around $1000. The superbike probably gets around the same gas mileage, is way cooler, way faster, just as safe, actually solves congestion, can carry the same stuff in the same comfort, has the same displacement engine, and has waaaaaaaay more complicated letters and numbers after its name.

Terribly sorry if that last sentence was more of a paragraph.

Going on the highway in one of these econo-boxes must be like going 70 (if they can actually go that fast) on a pit bike! On the superbike, it must be just as scary to go 70, but you know that if you fall off, your leather suit will protect you.

A great (and possibly illegal) thing to do with these econoboxes is to prank them. Because they are so light, a few friends can lift them up. So, a few people can lift up a FIAT Panda, turn it around (don't turn it into something new or move it more than five feet, that's considered grand theft auto! (Moving it five feet, not singing Human League songs in front of it.)) and when the owner of the unreliable Italian car comes by to drive it, they will have to get in on the opposite side of the car! PLEASE, PLEASE, don't do this and get arrested.

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