Comments on: Prius Envy

By: Nyeelah

Nyeelah — Wed, 10 May 2006 21:47:40 +0000

Yeah I admit I have Prius Envy only because gas in Chicago in 3.30 a gallon. At this point I would cram my family into that tiny contrapment and plow through the snow to save a little money.

By: SocalDriver

SocalDriver — Wed, 10 May 2006 19:30:37 +0000

What a joke – the world is mean to those many punks raging around in their Priuses ? Haha.

Here in SoCal, SUV and Prius drivers are interestingly both showing the same adverse behaviors that make driving so unpleasant these days – from tailgating, to cutting others off, from honking/cursing/throwing gestures to giving full-fledged brake checks … Socal Priuses have it all and can be seen driving aggressively much mor often than others.

Whenever there is a Prius around in Los Angeles and Orange County you can almost be sure that the driver of that car will commit road rage within minutes.

Somehow Prius drivers seem to think that since they drive a high-mpg vehicle they have some kind of a bonus that entitles them behave like total assholes elsewhere.

Bottom Line:
Sorry, no sympathy for them – if they are getting messed with for their rude behavior they should first consider what they themselves have done to provoke it.
Grow up, even if you drive a Prius !

By: Steve Boese

Steve Boese — Tue, 09 May 2006 18:29:03 +0000

I rented a Prius for 2 weeks last November… incredible car.

I surmised long ago that SUVs leapfrogged over more efficient and flexible minivans because they were more, uhmm… phallic. Too many men needed to shoot into traffic behind a prominent, uhmmm… protrusion, powered by eight gutsy cylinders. (Y’know, because eight is respectable, six is supposedly average, but nobody admits it, and four is just plain unmanly.)

Dodge figured it out long ago with with the hoods of their Ram trucks. Sculpted. Bulbous. Height and girth which strained ordinary garages.

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Mon, 08 May 2006 23:29:31 +0000

Andy?

Oh please… It’s “Drew.”

By: Rick Cendo

Rick Cendo — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:01:53 +0000

Great post! I was in Miami last year in the passenger side of a rental car and there was a Hummer to our right. Even though it was really hot and humid, the driver had his window down, presumabley to save gas by not using the AC. I got my first look at a honest-to-goodness Hummer driver — a Hummer in the moutains and snow of Miami no less. He was fat, bald, no chin.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:45:15 +0000

I love my Prius, there I said it. It’s hard to know though if I get yelled at because of my Prius, my anti-republican stickers, or my gay rights sticker.

/ basking in the glow of conservative ire.

By: DrumsNWhistles

DrumsNWhistles — Wed, 03 May 2006 06:13:51 +0000

Ohhhh, I suffer from Prius envy in a big way, tax credit or no tax credit.

It is the quintessential geek car. Really. I must have one.