The Dirty Nasty Toyota Prius

The Toyota Prius is not the "green" Eco-friendly fluffy wonderful boon to humanity some folks seem to think it is. It's slow, woefully underpowered, ugly, stubby, weak, puny, and sloppy handling. It's also not nearly as "green" or eco-friendly as Toyota would have us believe. And it's wrong-wheel-drive. And did I mention it's ugly? And slow? And weak and puny? Oh yeah, I did.

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• Toyota
• Prius
• Green
• Eco
• Mentalist
• Tree
• Higher
• Environmental
• Greenhouse
• Gasses
• Pollution
• Ugly
• Nasty
• POS
• slow
• puny
• weak
• crappy
• stupid
• carbon
• footprint
• razor
• tires
• sloppy
• handling
• ugly
• gross
• horrible

[PerformanceCars1FCH1]

well FWD was made for stupid drivers who cant drive in the snow.

[tjhaywood100]

@PerformanceCars1FCH1 Ain't that the truth!!!

[henkieboy1]

hahaha, this man is a sitting comedian. never heard anyone saying such stupid thing in less then ten minutes. gimme more of this crap! hahahaha!

[loweredtalon]

Top Gear = Saturday morning cartoons replacements.

[loweredtalon]

@ccntnd 100,000 miles "lifespan"? The warranty is 100,000 miles, NOT the lifespan. Got over 200,000 on mine with nothing more then oil changes done to the car.

[K31TH3R]

Just about everything you said is true except the rants about FWD. FWD can be better in certain situations. Tight corners/autocross, rally driving where you can left foot brake to balance the car through corners where the right driver can make them handle like AWD on gravel, and they're also the most efficient platform for transferring power to the ground without having to go through a big heavy driveshaft that a RWD does. But in just about every other situation RWD is better.

[ccntnd]

Also isn't the curb weight of the Prius over 3000 pounds? Maybe its due to the miles and miles of copper wiring in there that also had to be mined out of the ground. Then theres the kicker.... These batteries only have an approximate 100,000 mile lifespan before the entire footprint starts over. Meanwhile my TDI in my driveway was only shipped once across the Atlantic, I can use domestic bio-diesel to get just as good of mileage, and my TDI will easily run for 300,000 miles (god willing).

[ccntnd]

You left out the fact that after all that terrible pollution to make the car, the battery is then charged up 45% coal, 23% natural gas, 20% nuclear, 6% hydroelectric, 4% other renewables, 1% petroleum, .3% other gasses, .3% other (according to the EIA). It can't charge up that much from braking, especially when you factor in that you are only converting energy to the battery from GASOLINE THAT GOT YOU GOING IN THE FIRST PLACE!!