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Replying to: backy (Jan 22, 2009 6:21 pm) LOL, I have a HH and a Ford Expedition. I'm planning on a 2010 Prius and contemplating letting the Expedition go. If I keep the Expedition it will be used only for towing and travel when the whole family goes in one vehicle. I love the comfort but just don't feel like I should drive something like that 20,000 miles a year. However, if I only could afford 1 vehicle to do everything I wanted in a vehicle then the Expedition is high on my list. That, simply enough, is the reason there are a lot of SUV's on the road. They do it all and not everyone can afford a fleet to have individual needs met. I'm just wishing the Vette was available in a hybrid. |
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Replying to: wvgasguy (Apr 27, 2009 4:07 pm) I'm pleased you don't drive that way, but you are definitely in the minority. I speak strictly from daily experience. By "intimidating", I meant aggressive driving and surging up on my Prius from the rear as if to say, "get out of my lane." Makes no difference how fast I'm going - it's a matter of who "owns" the lane. |
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Replying to: rick294 (Apr 27, 2009 7:44 pm) I understand, but by using the word intimidating and describing it as because you drive a Prius makes it sound like they are intentionally picking on you because you are "green" or drive a Prius. Fact is they are idiots that can't drive. That happens in all types of vehicles including people in economy cars and all across the country. I'll assume you're not one of the idiots that get in the left lane and assume since you're driving the limit you have a right to be there. If you are then I'd probably push you too eventually. No one owns the lane. Our law states you will stay to the right except when passing. The Europeans have this down. It's just curtious driving. If you're in the right lane and they still do that to you then you're allowed to be smug so go ahead and flip them off. |
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Replying to: rick294 (Apr 27, 2009 7:44 pm)  After 3-1/2 yrs and 111,000 miles in mine I don't see any of that excessive agression from any driver in any vehicle. Well there is one story where one driver sped up to block me from merging from two lanes into one....so I clicked the Prius into 4WD mode, drove along the grassy shoulder and slipped in ahead of him. But that's about it. ( Oh! Yes I was a taxi driver in NYC while in college ). |
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Replying to: kdhspyder (Apr 28, 2009 8:44 am)  % out of me. Especially the two times I drove my Expedition downtown to show the kids Times Square at night.
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Replying to: wvgasguy (Apr 28, 2009 10:31 am) Hey, I learned to drive in Massachusetts. We scare New York Taxi drivers!  Never had a taxi or anyone from a State other than Mass intimidate me. All Mass drivers know they own the road.  Thankfully I no longer drive like that. |
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I'm a new member so Hello to all, Two weeks ago I attended a Green Fair near Seattle and saw the world's first Hybrid front license plate cover on a 100 mpg Prius. IT WAS AMAZING! What it does is make the front license plate aerodynamically disappear! I was told the flat license plate on the front of my Prius creates so much drag (With Out a Zippco Cover), that it consumes 50+ gallons of fuel a year. Not only that, a flat plate also creates a high pressure point at the front causing a disruptive air turbulence over the streamlined Prius body substantially reducing the effect to help it slip through the air to conserve fuel. Its called zippco usa, and was told they'll be on the market soon and retail for about $30 bucks. After seeing it, I can't imagine driving my Prius an other mile with out it.. If anyone locates these zippco Hybrid lic covers Pls Let Me Know...!
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Replying to: zippcoman (Apr 29, 2009 9:56 am) |
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Hi, This message to Prius owners. PUT ONLY GAS NOT CONTAINING ETHANOL IN YOUR CAR!!!! I have a 2007 Prius. When it was new I would regularly get 48 mpg. This was based on my own keeping records - not trusting the car which usually overestimated the mileage by a bit (~2 mpg). When it was new it could usually go about 430 miles on a tank of gas. However my car has been getting worse and worse mileage over the last year or so. There were several tanks of gas that the car wouldn't even go 400 mi before I had to fill it up again. I had this strong suspicion that the problem was gasoline containing ethanol. Fortunately for me I get most of my gas in Augusta GA and a new little gas station opened up that sells only gas containing NO ethanol. It has taken a few tanks, but now my car is getting BETTER MILEAGE THAN EVER. Right now it has gone 475 mi on a tank of gas an I am pretty sure I could go another 20 mi before I absolutely have to gas up again. Gas containing ethanol is a big scam, in my opinion. We have to pay the same price for it, but it carries less energy per unit volume because of the ethanol. Also, all that corn grown in the midwest takes a lot of energy, water, and agrochemicals to grow. Corn has a lot of run-off and the chemicals and fertilizer run-off into the Mississippi and eventually into the Gulf, where they contribute to the big eutrophic 'dead zones' in the ocean. So your and my dollars are helping one of the most stupid policies in the history of mankind. Do I have strong feelings about this? Sure do! Not gonna take it any more. Hopefully the new government pays attention to logic and scientific/natural reality a little better than the last and we can get rid of some of these really poor policies that the last administration put in place. Dave |
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Replying to: zippcoman (Apr 29, 2009 9:56 am) Assuming you drove 12,000 miles / year at 50 mpg, you'd use 240 gallons. If this miracle cover saved you 50 gallons, then for the same miles on 190 gallons you would be getting 63mpg. Pretty incredible results. Almost unbelievable. I'm surprised Toyota didn't develop this (that's sarcasm for those of you who believed his ad in the first place) I'd recommend you move to a state like mine where an ugly front plate is not required anyway. |
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