Not sure if anyone had posted this one....TOP GEAR tests the Prius..enjoy.


YouTube - Top Gear Toyota Prius


tonyd:)

 

Dang, Brit-ish haters! My friend with a Prius said she was trying to hypermile and she got 70mpg! I want one.

 

wow that was harsh. and i have to believe the worst mileage the prius could get is around 45. so yea...

top gear rates the fit tomorrow, right?!

 

I've been reading that th new season starts in the Uk, but we may not see these new episodes until October. :(

 

that was pretty awesome and entertaining, if not a little over the top. fact is most people want better mpg to save $$$ not the environment. by that criteria the fit is a far better investment.

 

haha that was funny. i love europeans. they tell it how it is.

 

the Toyota "Pry-Us"

lol krazy brits.:rotfl:

 

Heh, a lot of folks said it like that here as well until they heard how it was supposed to be pronounced. Same with Scion ("Sky-on"). :)

-Mike

 

"And watch the children run into the road, because they haven't heard me coming."

"This, I think, is a particularly good way of distracting you, from the child who's run into the road, having not heard you coming."

"Actually, I'm being unfair. The Prius is so slow, the child could run into the road, retrieve his ball, and grow to puberty, before you ever actually hit him."

He has a point about the diesels, but unfortunately we Americans think the idea of a turbocharged I3 diesel ludicrous.

 

i haven't watched this video yet, but my co-worker claimed she was getting under 40 mpg in her prius in the city. i told her to check her tire inflation. she did that and she's now getting barely over 40 mpg.

 

Jeremy's not a hater, he's brutally honest. The Prius is nothing more than show-business. It's a pretty trick piece of technology, but it truly does nothing to benefit the world. Diesels get great mileage, and they have a ton of torque. Even the little ones. And they can be engineered to be as clean as gas.

And the quality isn't that great. I've read about Priuses that crab-walk because Toyota is trying too hard to keep up with demand.