Word: priuses
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...funny feeling to tool around town in a $20,000 family car and get noticed as though you were driving a Ferrari. But that's exactly what happened when I took the futuristic-looking 2004 Toyota Prius for a spin around New York City. The new, improved hybrid car goes on sale in mid-October, but it's already getting plenty of buzz...
Toyota introduced the Prius in the U.S. in 2000, and Honda's Civic hybrid came out last year. Both cars save gas by drawing power from an electric motor that automatically recharges as you drive--no plugging in required. But the completely redesigned 2004 Prius is the first eco-friendly vehicle that not only saves money at the pump but also serves as a decent-size family car with a little oomph. Best of all, it sells for the same price as the original Prius...
...Increase in sales of Toyota's Prius, a gas-electric hybrid...
...takes a Prius three trips to Sam's to carry the same load of paper towels and salsa that an Expedition could manage in one, is the Prius evil? While only 1% to 10% of SUV owners actually use their vehicles' off-road and towing capacities, it's wrong to say those extras are wasted on the majority. Surely many of the buyers made the rational calculation that off-roading and towing might be useful in an emergency. (At a time when everyone is duct-taping the windows, it doesn't seem so crazy to think you would...
...nice bottle of Riesling and not much else)? Arianna Huffington, the columnist who helped start the Detroit Project--the group with the ads saying SUVs support terrorism--says that whenever she is invited to a swank gala, she has a chauffeur take the wheel of her gas-sipping Toyota Prius. We weren't rude enough to ask how heavy her chauffeur is, but his extra body weight is burning extra fuel, some of which may be coming from Persian Gulf nations that may have funneled money...