[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Prius (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 7/12/2010 4:55:14 PM EDT
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Saw a prius get pulled over by a motorcycle cop today. Pretty much made my day. |
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Having worked in a Toyota dealership, I wish nothing but pain and suffering on those pretentious, tree hugging, cock smoking, obama loving, boy am I making a difference in the world fucks.
Everyone one of them was a fucking wackjob in one way or another. The best time ever dealing with one was he claimed we did not replace his air filter. So I told him I would bring it to him after work since in was somewhat on the way. When I pulled up on my bike, exhaust burbling, boy was he pissed. I just told him we both get 40 mpg but mine is a lot more fun. |
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laugh all you want. when obama shuts down all the offshore wells and allows no drilling within 5000 miles of any amerikan territory or the continental us and gas goes to 10 bucks a gallon, you'll wish you had one.... Everyone laughs yeah right! And then goes to build and price them. |
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Quoted: Quoted: laugh all you want. when obama shuts down all the offshore wells and allows no drilling within 5000 miles of any amerikan territory or the continental us and gas goes to 10 bucks a gallon, you'll wish you had one.... Everyone laughs yeah right! And then goes to build and price them. If the libtards get their way, or a camel farts the wrong way somewhere in the sandbox, and oil prices go up, or taxes are imposed... getting 47mpg is going to be great! Hell, my motorcycle only gets 45mpg. Hell, the car will gain value if gas prices go up. Happened in 08 - there was a wait list, and used ones were selling for increasing prices. |
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Quoted: The Prius is a great engineering exercise. Google Earth that huge nickel mine near Sudbury, look at it and then use the ruler to see it's size. You will want to cry. And then do a little more reading, and you'll find that the Sudbury mines shit was straightened up 30 years ago. And yeah, it's still big. You'll also find that the output of nickel goes into many more products than batteries. MANY more. Batteries are a very small percentage of the consumption of nickel. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Me too. Mine is a 2008 silver Prius. I really like it. I am secure in my manhood. A lot of the people on here obviously are not.I own a Prius, and its my daily driver. But I can do that. See. I have a huge penis. I have a dark gray 09. Base model. It was fun putting in the cruise control. I was getting 49mpg last summer, but work changed and now I have to drive all highway to/from work, so I'm around 47 this year. |
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laugh all you want. when obama shuts down all the offshore wells and allows no drilling within 5000 miles of any amerikan territory or the continental us and gas goes to 10 bucks a gallon, you'll wish you had one....  He tried that already. The courts told him to go fuck himself.
 Hybrids are only for people who are bad in math.
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Quoted: Quoted: laugh all you want. when obama shuts down all the offshore wells and allows no drilling within 5000 miles of any amerikan territory or the continental us and gas goes to 10 bucks a gallon, you'll wish you had one.... He tried that already. The courts told him to go fuck himself. Hybrids are only for people who are bad in math.And you think the left will stay away from their agenda? Hybrids now are not bad when you do the math - as long as you don't compare apples to oranges. That's the problem people have. You want to take something like a Prius and compare it to the most stripped down, no option cheapo economy car. Those are usually smaller (Prius seats 5. My 6'5" 360lb good friend fits fine in the front or back seat and is not cramped in either), cheaper fitted (I had a Honda Fit for a while, my GOD was it NOISY on the highway! NO sound insulation at all!), and don't have all the standard equipment (airbags all around, ABS, traction control, power windows, power doors, power everything...). So when I bought mine, I wasn't comparing it to the cheapest fucking car I possibly could. I was comparing it to cars in the same price range - right around $20k. (mine's a base model, and I got it on sale for just about $20) I was comparing it to sedans and hatch backs around the same price. I considered a VW TDI, but found their reputation for quality was not so good, and they were not as easy to come across. I also remembered the gas price spike of 08 and considered that my round trip to work was 50+ miles. When I considered all of MY criteria, the Prius came out on top. It does what I need it to, and it does it very well. To each his own. A car is a tool. We all have different things we want out of the cars we choose to own. |
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A prius painted in normal colors is pretty gay already That's a pretty ignorant comment. Thanks for driving a Prius. I'll be needing your gas. I don't drive a Prius. I have however ridden in one, and can respect the Prius for the technology it is. |
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A prius painted in normal colors is pretty gay already That's a pretty ignorant comment. Thanks for driving a Prius. I'll be needing your gas. I don't drive a Prius. I have however ridden in one, and can respect the Prius for the technology it is. Do you mean the technology that requires its components to be shipped all over the world multiple times before assembly, requiring more fossil fuels than it ends up saving? 
Prius consumes more energy in a lifetime than a Jeep Cherokee "This conclusion was drawn from their research on the total energy used to build, maintain, operate, and recycle a car. Who could have guessed that the report was met with praise by SUV enthusiasts (and Detroit in general) and with skepticism by hybrid enthusiasts (Toyota in particular). The validity and methodological robustness of the report took a hit when CNW reviewed it a few months after the press release and concluded that maybe the Tahoe uses a little more energy than first reported (a whopping 30% more), thus consuming more lifetime "dust to dust" energy than hybrids after all. Oh, well, scratch that headline. To give you a feel for how radical this report's findings are, consider that a Prius will consume six cents of gas per mile if gas is $3.00 a gallon. This study calculates that a Prius would consume $2.87 worth of lifecycle energy per mile (dust to dust energy) at that same $3.00 value. Here is how it works. Let's say you need a new alternator. They account for the energy needed to make the new alternator, and to replace and recycle the old one. Simply multiply that methodology as needed to get desired results." |
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laugh all you want. when obama shuts down all the offshore wells and allows no drilling within 5000 miles of any amerikan territory or the continental us and gas goes to 10 bucks a gallon, you'll wish you had one.... He tried that already. The courts told him to go fuck himself.
Hybrids are only for people who are bad in math.And you think the left will stay away from their agenda? Hybrids now are not bad when you do the math - as long as you don't compare apples to oranges. That's the problem people have. You want to take something like a Prius and compare it to the most stripped down, no option cheapo economy car. Those are usually smaller (Prius seats 5. My 6'5" 360lb good friend fits fine in the front or back seat and is not cramped in either), cheaper fitted (I had a Honda Fit for a while, my GOD was it NOISY on the highway! NO sound insulation at all!), and don't have all the standard equipment (airbags all around, ABS, traction control, power windows, power doors, power everything...). So when I bought mine, I wasn't comparing it to the cheapest fucking car I possibly could. I was comparing it to cars in the same price range - right around $20k. (mine's a base model, and I got it on sale for just about $20) I was comparing it to sedans and hatch backs around the same price. I considered a VW TDI, but found their reputation for quality was not so good, and they were not as easy to come across. I also remembered the gas price spike of 08 and considered that my round trip to work was 50+ miles. When I considered all of MY criteria, the Prius came out on top. It does what I need it to, and it does it very well. To each his own. A car is a tool. We all have different things we want out of the cars we choose to own. How many miles do you get before those batteries go bad? Nobody really knows, but they think it's around 100k. How much will it cost to replace those batteries? $2500 - $3k. If you really want to compare apples to apples, you can get a nicely equipped Silverado for around $35k sticker. The hybrid version is $50k+. Let's say you gain 5MPG (20%) fuel economy - how long does it take you to pay off that extra $15k+? (It's the same for the Silverado diesel - 30% better fuel mileage but the diesel option adds $9200 to the sticker - so you need to drive it 300k miles before you recover your extra investment.) In order to really make your money back you NEED gas prices to skyrocket, which hits you in the pocket anyway. |
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laugh all you want. when obama shuts down all the offshore wells and allows no drilling within 5000 miles of any amerikan territory or the continental us and gas goes to 10 bucks a gallon, you'll wish you had one.... Then I will take my fucking horse to town... Dead serious. Done it before. |
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My hippie mind has been blazed....Man. Well that video makes me feel like a twat. 
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A prius painted in normal colors is pretty gay already That's a pretty ignorant comment. Thanks for driving a Prius. I'll be needing your gas. I don't drive a Prius. I have however ridden in one, and can respect the Prius for the technology it is. Damn straight. The Prius is a Teir One car. |
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laugh all you want. when obama shuts down all the offshore wells and allows no drilling within 5000 miles of any amerikan territory or the continental us and gas goes to 10 bucks a gallon, you'll wish you had one.... He tried that already. The courts told him to go fuck himself.
Hybrids are only for people who are bad in math.And you think the left will stay away from their agenda? Hybrids now are not bad when you do the math - as long as you don't compare apples to oranges. That's the problem people have. You want to take something like a Prius and compare it to the most stripped down, no option cheapo economy car. Those are usually smaller (Prius seats 5. My 6'5" 360lb good friend fits fine in the front or back seat and is not cramped in either), cheaper fitted (I had a Honda Fit for a while, my GOD was it NOISY on the highway! NO sound insulation at all!), and don't have all the standard equipment (airbags all around, ABS, traction control, power windows, power doors, power everything...). So when I bought mine, I wasn't comparing it to the cheapest fucking car I possibly could. I was comparing it to cars in the same price range - right around $20k. (mine's a base model, and I got it on sale for just about $20) I was comparing it to sedans and hatch backs around the same price. I considered a VW TDI, but found their reputation for quality was not so good, and they were not as easy to come across. I also remembered the gas price spike of 08 and considered that my round trip to work was 50+ miles. When I considered all of MY criteria, the Prius came out on top. It does what I need it to, and it does it very well. To each his own. A car is a tool. We all have different things we want out of the cars we choose to own. How many miles do you get before those batteries go bad? Nobody really knows, but they think it's around 100k. How much will it cost to replace those batteries? $2500 - $3k. If you really want to compare apples to apples, you can get a nicely equipped Silverado for around $35k sticker. The hybrid version is $50k+. Let's say you gain 5MPG (20%) fuel economy - how long does it take you to pay off that extra $15k+? (It's the same for the Silverado diesel - 30% better fuel mileage but the diesel option adds $9200 to the sticker - so you need to drive it 300k miles before you recover your extra investment.) In order to really make your money back you NEED gas prices to skyrocket, which hits you in the pocket anyway. You're comparing someone else's apples to my oranges. If you're worried about 'making your money back' the solution is simple - don't buy a hybrid version of whatever vehicle you're looking at. I'm not worried about 'getting my money back'. Because... well... WHAT money? Cars are depreciating liabilities, and there's no non-hybrid version to compare to. I've already gone over comparing to other 'econoboxes' above. I don't expect to have to replace the batteries for the entire useful life of the car. They're warranted to 100,000 miles. 150,000 in Kalifornistan. Think a company would warrant an expensive component for that long if they expected they'd fail before then? That would be ludicrous. I've heard from guys with 300,000+ miles on the original batteries. 'Sides, I can find used working packs on places like eBay for a few hundred bucks. Swapping them out is relatively easy if you know how to turn a wrench. But then, again, they're warranted, and I don't expect them to go bad. Asking me about it is like me asking what you're going to do when your vehicle's transmission fails. |
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laugh all you want. when obama shuts down all the offshore wells and allows no drilling within 5000 miles of any amerikan territory or the continental us and gas goes to 10 bucks a gallon, you'll wish you had one.... He tried that already. The courts told him to go fuck himself.
Hybrids are only for people who are bad in math.And you think the left will stay away from their agenda? Hybrids now are not bad when you do the math - as long as you don't compare apples to oranges. That's the problem people have. You want to take something like a Prius and compare it to the most stripped down, no option cheapo economy car. Those are usually smaller (Prius seats 5. My 6'5" 360lb good friend fits fine in the front or back seat and is not cramped in either), cheaper fitted (I had a Honda Fit for a while, my GOD was it NOISY on the highway! NO sound insulation at all!), and don't have all the standard equipment (airbags all around, ABS, traction control, power windows, power doors, power everything...). So when I bought mine, I wasn't comparing it to the cheapest fucking car I possibly could. I was comparing it to cars in the same price range - right around $20k. (mine's a base model, and I got it on sale for just about $20) I was comparing it to sedans and hatch backs around the same price. I considered a VW TDI, but found their reputation for quality was not so good, and they were not as easy to come across. I also remembered the gas price spike of 08 and considered that my round trip to work was 50+ miles. When I considered all of MY criteria, the Prius came out on top. It does what I need it to, and it does it very well. To each his own. A car is a tool. We all have different things we want out of the cars we choose to own. How many miles do you get before those batteries go bad? Nobody really knows, but they think it's around 100k. How much will it cost to replace those batteries? $2500 - $3k. If you really want to compare apples to apples, you can get a nicely equipped Silverado for around $35k sticker. The hybrid version is $50k+. Let's say you gain 5MPG (20%) fuel economy - how long does it take you to pay off that extra $15k+? (It's the same for the Silverado diesel - 30% better fuel mileage but the diesel option adds $9200 to the sticker - so you need to drive it 300k miles before you recover your extra investment.) In order to really make your money back you NEED gas prices to skyrocket, which hits you in the pocket anyway. You're comparing someone else's apples to my oranges. If you're worried about 'making your money back' the solution is simple - don't buy a hybrid version of whatever vehicle you're looking at. I'm not worried about 'getting my money back'. Because... well... WHAT money? Cars are depreciating liabilities, and there's no non-hybrid version to compare to. I've already gone over comparing to other 'econoboxes' above. I don't expect to have to replace the batteries for the entire useful life of the car. They're warranted to 100,000 miles. 150,000 in Kalifornistan. Think a company would warrant an expensive component for that long if they expected they'd fail before then? That would be ludicrous. I've heard from guys with 300,000+ miles on the original batteries. 'Sides, I can find used working packs on places like eBay for a few hundred bucks. Swapping them out is relatively easy if you know how to turn a wrench. But then, again, they're warranted, and I don't expect them to go bad. Asking me about it is like me asking what you're going to do when your vehicle's transmission fails. To each his own then. As for my transmission failing: I drive a 5,800 pound 2008 Silverado 2500HD, EXT, 4x4, 3.73, with 6L90E transmission (which also carries a 100k warranty). It has a maximum trailer weight of 9,900 pounds, & GCWR rating of 16k pounds. Since I don't regularly tow 3-4 Prius' behind me, I seriously doubt my transmission will break before yours.
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laugh all you want. when obama shuts down all the offshore wells and allows no drilling within 5000 miles of any amerikan territory or the continental us and gas goes to 10 bucks a gallon, you'll wish you had one.... He tried that already. The courts told him to go fuck himself.
Hybrids are only for people who are bad in math.And you think the left will stay away from their agenda? Hybrids now are not bad when you do the math - as long as you don't compare apples to oranges. That's the problem people have. You want to take something like a Prius and compare it to the most stripped down, no option cheapo economy car. Those are usually smaller (Prius seats 5. My 6'5" 360lb good friend fits fine in the front or back seat and is not cramped in either), cheaper fitted (I had a Honda Fit for a while, my GOD was it NOISY on the highway! NO sound insulation at all!), and don't have all the standard equipment (airbags all around, ABS, traction control, power windows, power doors, power everything...). So when I bought mine, I wasn't comparing it to the cheapest fucking car I possibly could. I was comparing it to cars in the same price range - right around $20k. (mine's a base model, and I got it on sale for just about $20) I was comparing it to sedans and hatch backs around the same price. I considered a VW TDI, but found their reputation for quality was not so good, and they were not as easy to come across. I also remembered the gas price spike of 08 and considered that my round trip to work was 50+ miles. When I considered all of MY criteria, the Prius came out on top. It does what I need it to, and it does it very well. To each his own. A car is a tool. We all have different things we want out of the cars we choose to own. How many miles do you get before those batteries go bad? Nobody really knows, but they think it's around 100k. How much will it cost to replace those batteries? $2500 - $3k. If you really want to compare apples to apples, you can get a nicely equipped Silverado for around $35k sticker. The hybrid version is $50k+. Let's say you gain 5MPG (20%) fuel economy - how long does it take you to pay off that extra $15k+? (It's the same for the Silverado diesel - 30% better fuel mileage but the diesel option adds $9200 to the sticker - so you need to drive it 300k miles before you recover your extra investment.) In order to really make your money back you NEED gas prices to skyrocket, which hits you in the pocket anyway. You're comparing someone else's apples to my oranges. If you're worried about 'making your money back' the solution is simple - don't buy a hybrid version of whatever vehicle you're looking at. I'm not worried about 'getting my money back'. Because... well... WHAT money? Cars are depreciating liabilities, and there's no non-hybrid version to compare to. I've already gone over comparing to other 'econoboxes' above. I don't expect to have to replace the batteries for the entire useful life of the car. They're warranted to 100,000 miles. 150,000 in Kalifornistan. Think a company would warrant an expensive component for that long if they expected they'd fail before then? That would be ludicrous. I've heard from guys with 300,000+ miles on the original batteries. 'Sides, I can find used working packs on places like eBay for a few hundred bucks. Swapping them out is relatively easy if you know how to turn a wrench. But then, again, they're warranted, and I don't expect them to go bad. Asking me about it is like me asking what you're going to do when your vehicle's transmission fails. To each his own then. As for my transmission failing: I drive a 5,800 pound 2008 Silverado 2500HD, EXT, 4x4, 3.73, with 6L90E transmission (which also carries a 100k warranty). It has a maximum trailer weight of 9,900 pounds, & GCWR rating of 16k pounds. Since I don't regularly tow 3-4 Prius' behind me, I seriously doubt my transmission will break before yours. I don't tow anything, nor do I need to. I do not expect any failures of any components in my vehicle through normal wear over its lifetime in my possession. It's a tool and it does the job I need to. It does it pretty damn well, too. If I had other requirements, such as towing 9000lbs worth of whatever, I'd need a different tool. Them's life! |