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Title: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: ericire12 on May 13, 2009, 03:41:48 PM
Skip to 2:30 Mark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsJjZIuF1lg&feature=related
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: Texas_Bryan on May 13, 2009, 03:57:36 PM
That'll teach those drugged up communist!  And it's neither, cause I see a Prius and think, "I know the Democrat National Convention ain't in town."  Then I grow irritated but satisfied in the knowledge that I could get five or six guys together and load a Prius, Smart Car, or any other communist contraption in to the back of my truck and throw that corrupt instrument of oppression and tyranny off into a quarry.  Then I relax and find peace knowing that the first accident that commie has will be the last.  I don't like people selling lies to me and finally a subject of the Commonwealth has done something productive.  Done. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: Green Mountain Gringo on May 13, 2009, 04:05:50 PM


"come to think of it, I'd rather look at the BACK of a baa boon!"   ;D


Great line.
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: CJS3 on May 13, 2009, 04:32:49 PM
That'll teach those drugged up communist!  And it's neither, cause I see a Prius and think, "I know the Democrat National Convention ain't in town."  Then I grow irritated but satisfied in the knowledge that I could get five or six guys together and load a Prius, Smart Car, or any other communist contraption in to the back of my truck and throw that corrupt instrument of oppression and tyranny off into a quarry.  Then I relax and find peace knowing that the first accident that commie has will be the last.  I don't like people selling lies to me and finally a subject of the Commonwealth has done something productive.  Done. ;D ;D ;D

Actually, I sit back in the cab of my pickup, and smile at what the look on the Prius driver's face will be when he realizes what he's going to have to pay when it comes time to replace his batteries.
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: Texas_Bryan on May 13, 2009, 05:00:20 PM
Actually, I sit back in the cab of my pickup, and smile at what the look on the Prius driver's face will be when he realizes what he's going to have to pay when it comes time to replace his batteries.

Any environmental benefits go down the crapper real quick once the government announces that there's a battery waste 'crisis' when there's 300 million sets of hybrid batteries in the landfills.
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: twyacht on May 13, 2009, 06:00:56 PM
I heard that mineral water puts fires out faster,........ ::)

Park in my damn spot,..... 8)
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: PegLeg45 on May 13, 2009, 06:05:33 PM
I think everyone needs two...............one to Sh*t on and one to cover it up with.     ;)
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: brosometal on May 13, 2009, 07:04:23 PM
To answer the question, as illustrated by the video it ain't cover.  Although, to be fair, there isn't much cover at 100yds away from the wrong end of a ma deuce. 

As to the cover issue, it is cover in the same way as Donny Trump's 14, 60 ft hairs whirled into a turban are  cover for his bald spot.
 ;D
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: Big Frank on May 13, 2009, 09:24:05 PM
It's great concealment. As a matter of fact, you'll never see me in one.  ;D
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: PegLeg45 on May 13, 2009, 09:40:25 PM
To answer the question, as illustrated by the video it ain't cover.  Although, to be fair, there isn't much cover at 100yds away from the wrong end of a ma deuce. 

As to the cover issue, it is cover in the same way as Donny Trump's 14, 60 ft hairs whirled into a turban are  cover for his bald spot.
 ;D

Broso, you have such a way with words............. laughing hysterically............. ;D
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: philw on May 13, 2009, 09:59:36 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_KIqdS1SO0

watch near the end hehe

some good driving in it though
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: fightingquaker13 on May 13, 2009, 10:15:02 PM
Dear God Phil! You owe me like six new keyboards. That, my friends, is television. ROFL! ;D
FQ13
PS How many members of the Mexican SWAT team could you fit in a Fiesta?
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: Pathfinder on May 13, 2009, 10:15:51 PM
Haven't seen the video, just got home from SWAT night in our County Sheriff's Citizen Academy. Someone did an analysis of ownership, based on life expectancy of the Prius compared to a Hummer, and the Hummer came out way ahead, something like $1.19 to over $3 for the Prius. Seems the Prius dies at around 100k miles, while the hummer is good for way more than that.

Also, it seems the Prius batteries are better traveled than I am, starting in a desolate, ravaged expanse in Canada (raw materials), processed, shipped to Germany for further processing into the cores, then shipped to Japan for the final battery assembly and loading into the cars. Then the cars are shipped - with batteries - to the US and sold here. The total cost of ownership, the "carbon footprint" if you will, will take and entire African village's carbon offsets for one lousy little car.

Best reference, though - The Simpsons where Homer becomes Max Power and meets all of the gliteratti, including Ed Begley, who eschews electric cars. Instead, he drives a car powered by his own smug sense of self-satisfaction.
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: ericire12 on May 13, 2009, 10:25:57 PM
Best reference, though - The Simpsons where Homer becomes Max Power and meets all of the gliteratti, including Ed Begley, who eschews electric cars. Instead, he drives a car powered by his own smug sense of self-satisfaction.

Actually, that is exactly why they make those cars look so damn ugly like they do...... Market research was done and they found that Prius owners got off on the fact that they look like an electric car.
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: runstowin on May 13, 2009, 11:22:58 PM
Top Gear, my favorite TV show.
Title: Re: Toyota Prius, Cover or Concealment?!?!?
Post by: True_Texan on May 13, 2009, 11:26:57 PM
Top Gear, my favorite TV show.

Doth thou forgettith where thy is?

Top gear is in the top 5 on my list... Crazy Brits with too much money to blow up. (Yes I'm jealousĀ  >:( )

(And no, that isn't any kind of impersonation. Just felt like being overly dramatic. The heat around here is terrible for the brain.)