#60 Toyota Prius
February 7, 2008 by clander
Over the years, white people have gone through a number of official cars. In the 1980s it was the Saab and the Volvo. By the 1990s it was the Volkswagen Jetta or a Subaru 4WD stastion wagon. But these days, there is only one car for white people. One car that defines all that they love: the Toyota Prius.
The Prius might be the most perfect white product ever. It’s expensive, gives the idea that you are helping the environment, and requires no commitment/changes other than money.
The Toyota Prius gets 45 miles per gallon. That’s right, you can drive 45 miles and burn only one gallon of gasoline. So somehow, through marketing or perception, the Prius lets people think that driving their car is GOOD for the environment.
It’s a pretty sweet deal for white people. You can buy a car, continue to drive to work and Barak Obama rallies and feel like you are helping the environment!
Some white people decide to pull the ultimate move. Prius, Apple Sticker on the back, iPod rocking, and Democratic Candidate bumper sticker. Unstoppable!
There are a few ways you can use this to your advantage. If you are carpooling to an event or party you can always say “can we take your Prius? my car doesn’t get good mileage and I feel guilty driving it.” And bam! Free ride! 
Also, if you see a white person in a Prius you can say “wow, that’s great to see that you’re doing something for the earth.” The white person will feel very good about themselves and offer to drive you home, to Ikea, or drop you off at 80s night.
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buy what you like , the only person paying the gas bill is the person that bough the car
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1128945/thanksgiving_layouts_for_myspace_heres.html?cat=15
liberal hummer driver your rediculous and a true american
moron.
please.. not everyone that hates prius’s drive hummers. prius just suck for what they are. they don’t even save the environment.
The pieces of shit still suck. Piss on Prius.
Visit this website for the true most “environmentally friendly car”. Hint: It’s not the Prius!
http://www.velvetron.com/blog/cars_and_transportation/the-toyota-prius-sucks/
This comparison works great, as long as you start with biased assumptions that have no merit. How many Subburbans/Hummers do you know of with 300K+ mileage?
As far as replacing the batteries every 60-70K miles in the prius, I have almost 85K with no problems and know of at least 2 other Prius drivers pushing 90K and 1 over 150K that have not had any significant maintenance costs … not even battery replacement.
BTW, I like Hummers too, and don’t see any reason to hate you for your choice of vehicle.
Prius Haters … GET OVER IT!
I hate prius’. I am very liberal and only drive cars from before 1980. Any true car lover knows that pre-1970′s were the best. It takes more energy to build this shit boxes and the parts to fix them after they break down every 10 miles. Driving older cars is actually better for the environment than driving new ones. I am white, but I thought jackass conservatives thought blacks supported Obama and women supported Palin. It only seems RIGHT to them. After all women and blacks don’t have brains, oh wait that’s right Obama’s ahead in the polls. I hate prius drivers. They are pompous jerks. They think they are the best and the hell with the rest. I will continue driving my old cars that are better for the environment and cheaper to run. With a new car you have emissions from building the car, shipping the car and burning the gas, cars are only built once. It also is less cost effective. You have to make payments on the new car and pay for gas and repairs. Used cars have NO payments. Thanks to drivers of new cars that suck there is true AMERICAN IRON left for me. You people all suck.
Can you mention one site that states driving older cars is better for the environment? I see how your “cheaper to run, cheaper to repair” logic works because you’re talking about “American iron”. But I’d be interested to see where it states that they’re better for the environment.
buying a prius is a smart choice ,i think aits more about gas mileage than anything else in a world when gas is so expensive how can you be mad about 45 miles to the gallon. my girlfriend has a 07 prius , and i drive a 08 camry se , and yes im black. many today are buying them to fit in the tree hugging gronola head starbucks drinking set, but if you can get one buy it.
I just bought a Yaris, which runs about 30K less than the Prius. I get 37 mpg. I doubt 8 miles more per gallon even over the life of the car will add up to the more than 30K (if you add in financing) that I saved on the vehicle itself. I hope not, anyway
Oh, and Volvo’s are still mad cool- almost retro.
The ignorance of the Yaris comment finally set me over the top. I paid less than 30K for my prius, so where did you find someone to pay you to get a Yaris?
Yes, I am white; No, I am not a liberal; and BTW I am a heavy-footed aggresive driver and still love my Prius. Slow? I know mine is governed at 109 mph; which is the only part that really pisses me off.
I don’t really care about how much it saves the environment, I like the 45-50 mpg for a car that I can truly fit in at 6’3″ without having to cut off my kids’ legs to get them in the back seat. Not Civic, Yaris, Focus, or any other car that get mileage even close has this much room.
I also have a 3/4 ton Ram and feel absolutely no guilt getting 6-7 mpg when I am towing my camper.
Yes, there are some liberal faggots that drive Priuses to make a statement, usually en-route to fund raisers asking my to give them money for starving people in 3rd world nations while wearing outfits that cost more than my annual salary.
Bottom line, some of us just drive the Prius because it is a really good daily driver that meets our needs for a reasonable investment. If you just need a commuter for yourself, go ahead and buy your favorite econobox go-cart; I’ll keep my Prius for my family and thoroughly enjoy all the creature comforts (and gadgets) it comes with. If you hate me for it, that sounds like a problem you need to deal with because I really don’t care.
I have a Yaris too, which even after financing will be $18k total (and that’s including gap insurance on the financing — the car itself will be less than that). The Prius costs at least $22-25k, and that’s sticker price, before financing is taken into account! (I imagine a financed Prius runs at about $30-33k or so, lower if you have excellent credit.)
My Yaris has more than enough space for luggage (as I don’t have children, thank God) , so we’ll always have the option to fold the seat down unless friends are with us, and we won’t need room for tons of luggage then, because we don’t go on week-long road trips with friends. It also has an aux port so I can plug in my mp3 player. Add in three cup holders and four bottle holders, which is more than enough, and you get the Yaris. How’s that for creature comforts? Oh, and by the way, my remote-entry locks and power windows won’t ever break because they don’t exist — everything’s manual, just the way I like it. Have fun, though, when your electronic/power “creature comforts” become “creature nightmares” after they stop working, just like they did on my mom’s power-everything Celica.
I also get between 35-40 mpg, probably closer to 40 because I drive slow, and driving slower is a LOT more relaxing, and even funny sometimes, because I get to screw with the tree-hugger Prius drivers and everyone else behind me and raise their blood pressure that stems from their “gotta get there now” mentality that’s endemic in America. Not to mention that my Yaris’ gas mileage probably equals or beats your Prius on the highway because you drive 100 mph and I drive 60. And before you say, “Raise my blood pressure and I’ll ram you off the road!!!!11″, yeah, sure, go ahead… My Yaris also has dual airbags. I’ll survive, and I’ll see your ass in jail on my hospital room TV and laugh, laugh, laugh. XD
“Us” refers to my girlfriend and I, which I accidentally deleted from the post earlier on. We hate kids, by the way.
[...] course, being a conscientious, liberally-educated white person, I am of course concerned with the environment and also putting more money into the coffers [...]
Did you forget your medication?
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