Showing posts with label Toyota. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toyota. Show all posts

23 June 2009

Your Daily Photo (Bro, a Bra on Your Prius? Edition)

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Seriously Bro, may I call you Bro? No Bras on Priuses (or is that Prii?), no. Just, no. Turn to your left, gaze upon that classic Speedster next to you and see how clean, beautiful, simple lines need no other adornments. Not that your crappy Toyota hybrid actually has clean or classic lines, from a styling standpoint your douchy hybrid has pretty douchy lines. Hell, if fuel economy was really what you're after, then you'd have been much better off with Toyota's own Yaris. The difference between getting 46 combined mpg and getting 31 combined mpg may seem significant, but when you can get a 5 door Yaris for about $12,500 and a Prius goes for about $21,000 (not including a BRA, or your illegal in CA all window tinting), you'd have to drive a lot of miles to make up that $8,500 difference (at $3/gal to save $8,500 in your Prius compared to a Yaris in fuel economy, you'd have to drive 269,356 miles).

And Dude in the Speedster, may I call you Dude? Love the car, looks to be in immaculate shape, kudos on that, but a popped collar? Dude, no. Just, no.

14 December 2006

Car Talk

Cars, can't live with them, can't live without them.

GM should soon be number two worldwide to Toyota in total vehicle sales. I bow (very low, from the waist) before our Japanese carmaking overlords. I didn't realize that GM divested their stock in Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru's parent company) and Toyota gobbled up a big share of the same company. They're even going to make Toyotas alongside the Subarus in Indiana. Matching Subarus engineering with Toyotas economies of scale is a match made in heaven. I really do love me some Subarus. So does this kid, probably a bit too much.

Also, a review of the latest Expedition EL. Yes, it's a boat on wheels. I don't like big trucks personally, but I don't think they should be banned from the roads. I'm fascinated by the comment section following the review of that beast on the The Truth About Cars blog. It descends into talk of nanny-statism v. ecodisaster v. class-envy v. regional biases. Nothing stirs the pot like big SUVs.