The worlds best car! A tribute to the Toyota Prius for saving my friends life.avi

Choose Prius, Choose Life!!!!, not only did my dear chum survive hitting a truck doing 40mph head on whilst also doing 40 mph, he spent just two nights in hospital having a rod put in to a broken leg, and has since bought another Prius. Richard Hammond, having once driven a small car very carefully across Europe in a Top Gear economy challenge "Why buy a 'PRYUS' (note incorrect pronouncement of Prius) - moron) when you can do 83mpg in this... Having done 80 mpg in this very car, I'd say "Why lumber yourself with a poxy little stick shift econobox when you can have a Prius -a PROPER sized car with seven airbags that pulls like a V6. In 2003 a very dear friend also hid a lorry head on, alas he WAS driving a small econobox - he was annihilated - crushed, even the keys to his flat that were in his pocket were mangled. It's thanks to Toyota that I didn't have to live through the grief and sadness all over again. I too have chosen to drive a Prius, This is the car Jeremy Clarkson - another moron who also cannot even pronounce 'Prius' properly once described the Prius thus... "In a desperate attempt to improve fuel economy they made it out of tracing paper - some tracing paper!!! There are plenty of stick shift econoboxes out there, but the Prius is a proper 5 seater with a 1.8 liter engine. The video has been through Youtube's new video stabilization system, that alas makes the subtitles jump about instead - sorry about that!

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[Wraithdagger]

Was the throttle stuck?

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@Wraithdagger Driver fell asleep - was given far too much work load, he was driving up to 400 miles a day seeing customers due to lack of other staff, and it caught up with him......!

[RedFathom]

i'm still driving my dad's prius. it got hit by a dumptruck at 50 while waiting to make a left turn. he drove it home. took $12k in repairs. it's half 05 half 08 now.

[IseeShizz]

thankfully he got out alive

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@RidX4Ricers I love the ride in mine - the roads in the UK are full of potholes as we degenerate in to a Third world state, so the last thing I need is super feel stering! The seats are fine. When I had my 2Litre fuel injected Volvo, a Prius thrashed the pants of it away from the lights thanks to 50 extra horse power from the motor - that is one of the reasons I went and bought one. The transmission is not CVT its electric - its a miniturised version of the system they use on the bullet train.

[RidX4Ricers]

@ChuffChuffWoo Have you ever actually driven a truly nice car? My aunt has a prius and it does NOT drive like a nice car, the seats are hard and uncomfortable, the steering is numb, it has NO power and can barely get out of it's own way, and don't get me started on the CVT transmission. People may buy the prius but there are more people that dislike it than like it.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@RidX4Ricers I dont, and its automatics have tended to be the gas guzzlers, manuals are a pain. The prius drives like and expensive car, but costs as much to road tax and fuel as a cheap one. The Prius is a world wide success story, and that's despite the best efforts of Jeremy Clarkson!

[RidX4Ricers]

@ChuffChuffWoo You know a lot of people prefer driving a manual. A lot of people don't care about how well a car sells in Japan. And a lot of people really don't give a shit about fuel economy or emissions either.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@RidX4Ricers Its just over taken the Toyota Corrolla as the best selling car of all time in Japan - there is more to an efficient car then fuel economry - but if MPG is the only thing a buyer cares about, they can go and get themselves a cheap and nasty stick shift econobox.

[ChuffChuffWoo]

@Luisgtm95 Except my mom's (bloomin thing!)