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Replying to: larsb (Sep 27, 2007 12:01 pm) Why would you say that Consumer Affairs is any more biased than Consumer Reports? Is Consumer Affairs owned by the Big 3 like CR is owned by Toyota? Any entity that says anything negative about hybrids is a hack operation in your opinion. Now that mainstream media and car buyers in general are questioning the need for or the savings owning a hybrid you attack them also. I think people are just now seeing the light of day on this whole hybrid charade. By the way. Anyone looking for a hybrid in San Diego. Mossy Toyota has the largest inventory of Prius, I saw 13 on the lot. Plus they have a half dozen Camry Hybrids to chose from. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 27, 2007 7:16 pm) |
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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 27, 2007 7:16 pm) Thanks for the Friday morning laugh !!!! LOL !!! ROFLMTEO !!! |
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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 27, 2007 7:16 pm) Gary says, "Why would you say that Consumer Affairs is any more biased than Consumer Reports?" Um, here are the reasons: 1. Consumeraffairs.com, whomever is the editorial staff there, had apparently been told to publish every single little "here's a hybrid owner who has a problem" story that they can find. If you search their site there are many many of those sort of articles. Any fair, balanced, pro-hybrid stories to balance out the issue? Very few. Consumeraffairs.com has an obvious and glaring anti-hybrid bias, and I know this for a fact because I have read almost all their hybrid articles and have sent them numerous "what's your problem?" e-mails and have NEVER ONCE gotten the respect of a response from them. I even filed a Consumer Complaint about THEM on their site !! 2. Consumer Reports is not biased in any way, and I'm sorry that you are too "set in your ways" to see that. They do testing by REAL SCIENTISTS and they report problems based on REAL OWNERS who report the problems, and they use "large enough groups" to make a statistical difference. What I mean by that is that consumeraffairs.com uses one owner here, one owner there, and then makes little snide comments in the stories which intimate that ALL hybrids must or so have these problems that this one owner in the story has. Gary says, "Now that mainstream media and car buyers in general are questioning the need for or the savings owning a hybrid you attack them also." What do you mean "NOW THAT" this is happening? IT HAS HAPPENED FROM DAY ONE with the hybrids - are you kidding me !! I have been here for the last three years trying to refute all the anti-hybrid garbage that gets put out. "Just now" is not an applicable term for people attacking hybrids and YOU KNOW THAT GARY.
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Replying to: larsb (Sep 28, 2007 5:28 am)
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Replying to: railroadjames (Sep 28, 2007 6:17 am) Besides, all that technology is just plain fun to drive! |
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I have heard from reputable sources the site is run by lawyers looking for consumer cases to exploit. They have appearantly been warned several times by your government to cease and desist, but so far they are still chasing lawsuits. Perhaps someone should look a little closer.
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Replying to: pathstar1 (Sep 28, 2007 7:54 am) Just to be fair and balanced. When I test drove a Sequoia yesterday. The salesman told me that the Prius is their best selling car. That was Mossy Toyota San Diego. They had at least 13 on the lot and offering good prices through the end of the month. Oh, I liked the Sequoia a LOT....
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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 28, 2007 8:20 am) Oh really? Got any weblinks to that effect? Hard to hide something like that. |
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I guess I got my answer to the SIMPLE question of whether any of our longterm Prius owners have experienced unintended acceleration. To date, I'm marking that down as a NO. Let's move on to another aspect of long term ownership of the Prius and get away from the discussion of validity of websites... Have any of you long term, higher mileage Prius owners run into any issues or concerns with your traction battery yet? Since the Prius went on sale in Japan in 1997 and worldwide in 2001, we're getting closer to that time when battery lifetime/replacement COULD start to be an issue. I'm not asking this to prove anything one way or the other about the Prius, so please don't jump in trying to defend or attack the Prius or hybrids. Just interested to hear from owners and their thoughts. If you've got 100,000 miles on your Prius and the battery is showing no signs of petering out on you anytime soon, let's hear that. If the thought has entered the back of your head and you've started to ask around about costs or recognition signs, post that too. Again, let's not turn this into a debate over the practicality of hybrids. Thanks!
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