Drunk eBaying

Haha!!

wet cheese.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wet%20cheese

I just saw on the BBC that Toyota have just recalled 400,000 of them.

Thats a good start, Lynx should be able to get a better price for them on the bay now

There is a possibility that certain accelerator pedal mechanisms may, in rare instances, mechanically stick in a partially depressed position or return slowly to the idle position.

in laymans speak.. your fucked

Enviromental stuff

Well what is it that most journey are sub 5 miles. Walk or cycle if you are able to and not disabled.

Plus other things such as battery manufacture/life/recycling and mpg claims

Mr No Braks now haz braks?

That's my dad... Taught me everything I know...

The Prius might not be the saintly earth saver that it is marketed as,

Interestingly enough, the Prius is a far better vehicle, environmentally speaking, than it's well reasonsed detractors might have us believe.

The main problem with the Prius is that it's design for efficiency is next to redundant in Europe. It needs to be closely matched to the design of roads most commonly found in Japan and America where the most common journeys consist of a period of slow sub-urban style travel followed by a period of fast, consistent highway travel followed by another period of slow sub-urban style travel. This makes the best use of both the regeneration facilities and the momentum of the weight of the batteries once the vehicle is up to speed.

Prius is brakless.

Prius is brakless.

ha,
prius is withdrawn..........

Totally. And the problem with the Prius doesn't so much lie in each individual car, but in the likely numbers of them that will be produced--rather more than Hummers. As a marketing strategy, greenwash is contagious--compare claims in the 70s that smaller cars would reduce oil dependency and congestion. Result? The two-car household and far more cars.

Ah yes, but this is, in part, because the claims of the 70's weren't followed through on. We haven't obeyed the requirement of smaller cars for this model to work.

Interestingly enough it looks like we might be about to enter an era of micro-commuting. People using smaller, lower occupancy cars for commuting to escape congestion at it's most prevalent time. Bear in mind that owning cars doesn't increase congestion or oil dependancy, it's having them on the road.

Mr Yoshuszu Konnichiwa recalled lots of Toyota cars- true leader!

Here we go... I bet someone is about to regail us with a story about some generic Nazi general who disobeyed direct orders from Hitler to fight a battle and surrendered instead and is therefore considered a great leader... and then this thread is fucked.

Toyota my arse MF. Those cars are shit.

Here we go... I bet someone is about to regail us with a story about some generic Nazi general who disobeyed direct orders from Hitler to fight a battle and surrendered instead and is therefore considered a great leader... and then this thread is fucked.

Didn't you just do this?

I guess so.... some manager just gave us some fucking diatribe about leadership qualities and cited examples... Im actually too annoyed to go into it.

Those cars are shit.

Fact. In a couple of years every Prius will be driven by mini cab rapists. Shit cars for wankers.

And all of the black cabs will be those large Mercedes... you can see it coming. No way can the black cab survive in the face of cheaper larger vehicles to purchase and run, and with the newly licensed minicabs now competing against them.

The old black cabs are for nostalgists, just like the Routemaster buses. The emissions are too high for the 21st century, they're noisy and uncomfortable.

The old black cabs are for nostalgists, just like the Routemaster buses. The emissions are too high for the 21st century, they're noisy and uncomfortable.

But they have space inside them for a gentleman to wear his top hat, so you know, swings and roundabouts...

The old black cabs are for nostalgists, just like the Routemaster buses. The emissions are too high for the 21st century, they're noisy and uncomfortable.

But you can take a whole Colnago with you

Credulous nonsense it is then.

There's a surprise

http://www.cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/Hidden%20Cost%20of%20Driving%20a%20Prius%20Commentary.pdf

[FONT=Times New Roman]The Prius registered an energy-cost average of $3.25 per mile driven over its expected
life span of 100,000 miles. Ironically, a Hummer, the brooding giant that has become the
bête noir of the green movement, did much better, with an energy-cost average of $1.95
over its expected life span of 300,000 miles. And its crash protection makes it far safer
than the tiny Prius.
[/FONT]

^ By James L. Martin

You couldn't make it up.