#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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homesexuals, metrosexuals, and liberals love these “cars” they are trying to make the statement, and then they go back to their affluent lilly white neighborhoods whereby they overconsume, and drink wine, and fornicate since jim braski will go to work and penetrate.
To own a Prius doesn’t make one better than the other who drives a SUV to work and back home to his family, the Toyota Prius still requires a level of gas to operate and to be trendy having an electric car. If you do want to purchase and own an electric, good luck finding the rare electrical recharge station in your area: hardly can be found in the Palm Springs area, for instance…and electric car dealers can’t make money in the recession. Sure, to save fuel and the cost of gas per gallon is a trade-off, but in hard times, nobody is making a buck like they used to. +
Thats not a car, thats a lunchbox with a computer in it.
I proudly drive a Ford Expedtion with a Triton V8 with 450 horsepower and on good days 15MPG. But at least if I get into an accident my car wont be my grave, and the person in my way wont live to sue me.
Amen to that. Size does matter. Plus it’s not a practical car for a larger family or to carry anything in. If anything (and I hate the Prius with a passion), it may be practical to run simple errands where you won’t be getting on the freeway, but all those small cars just freak me out. Talk about death traps. Personally, I don’t think children should be allowed to ride in them on the freeway. I wouldn’t be caught dead in one. I actually cringe when I see them driving around my Central California Coastal town where every other person has one. I love driving my 4 wheel drive full-sized truck through town where they all try to get out of my way.
The 2010 Toyota Prius is an IIHS Safety Pick of 2009:
http://www.iihs.org/ratings/default.aspx
I hope Zach feels superior to Prius-driving weaklings like us when Gas costs > $5/Gal next year and he can’t afford to drive. Hey maybe you can hitchhike to work.
The Prius is a tiny tin can. I don’t care what the safety ratings say. I’ve read many articles that still state size does matter. There is NO WAY I’d want to be in a Prius and get in an accident with a large truck or suv – no way. So go ahead Prius owners; go ahead and drive your ugly little stupid cars and hope that you get in an accident with another Prius. That’s the only way you’ll survive. No real man would be caught dead in one. I could maybe see a woman driving one, although not this woman. They are just hideous beyond belief.
You must be a Republican. How ignorant.
Well a Republican just won the senate in Mass, so I guess times they are a changing. Ha ha.
Hey, I’m a Republican and I own a Prius so screw you.
triton v8 with 450 horsepower, in your dreams pal.
I hate a prius with a passion
Amen.
idiot
LMAO!
Who cares?
You probably don’t get it. Prius has the most modern UI. So if you are a professional computer user, it is only natural to use Prius; the UI of any other car, including all those mercedeses just sucks, really. I bought mine for the UI, not for gas saving (what you save, you give to Toyota anyway).
Duuuuuhhh
its a sad day when i sit here to comment on a comment about a little anicdote some homo thought was fun enough to jarble. In this day of excess any effort to push the equation is welcomed by your senior, just a steward you watch with telephone eyes as the earth burns up around you, fuck you suv, fuck you me, cars, and cinder, ciggarettess and lcd screens only the primal will survive, we are all part of the problem, stop fooling your self, and suck a monkey
I think you need to add a new one to the list of what white people like “going off the grid”.
While visiting my sister (in a VERY white vacation spot) she was talking on the phone to a friend and I heard her say. “No she won’t beable to make tennis, She’s having a bit of a crisis. She’s off the grid and her house was hit by lightening and now she has to wait for a repair person to fix her solar panels.”
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money by purchasing a pretentious Toyota Prius.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
You do know asians are richer than whites in the US right?
Tell that to Bill Gates.
The richest nation on earth is Nauru, due to phosphate mining in an island 8 sq. miles wide and home to 9,000 inhabitants, smack at the equator in the western Pacific. Each adult in Nauru gets a $65,000 annual check from the government, but the phosphate deposits will run out in a few years, and the rising sea level promote relocation plans of the whole island-nation, most likely to purchase land in Australia. +
“Some white people decide to pull the ultimate move. Prius, Apple Sticker on the back, iPod rocking, and Democratic Candidate bumper sticker. Unstoppable!”
*Dies laughing* You’ve just described the German teacher at my college to a perfect ‘T!’
I love this site!!
Someone at my college has all that and vanity plates that say “NO CO2.”
Talk about trying too hard…
Any time a white person brags to me about their Prius, I just tell them, “I drive a 1994 Geo Metro XFi which gets FIFTY-ONE miles per gallon and it’s carbon debt was paid off a long time ago. You’ll need to drive your Prius 46,000 miles just to pay off it’s own carbon debt and can never catch up to my Geo Metro.”
Actually, I’ve gotten as high as 56.7 mpg’s on my Prius. During spring and summer, I regularly get over 50 mpg’s. Plus my Prius is about as reliable a car as you can get and it’s packed with safety features like stability control, antilock brakes, etc. I’ll never buy anything but a Toyota or Honda in the future. Geo? Thanks, but no thanks.
Except your Prius will last half as long as his car does. Oh wait your dealer didn’t tell you that did he?
It sure does get 51mpg. That’s because it weighs nothing.
Actually, the weight of the car has little to do with it. On the dash of the Prius is a computer screen that lets you see how many mpg’s you’re getting at any given time. Before I had a Prius, I drove like everybody else and was oblivious to how much gas I was wasting by driving with a lead foot and making jackrabbit starts. With this screen, I began to change my habits. With each trip, I get progressively better at figuring out how to get the best mpg’s I could at any given moment. And you know what? I regularly beat the mpg estimates that the industry rates the Prius at. Not only that, you have to learn to have a delicate touch with the accelerator, because Toyota hybrids drive and ride differently than standard gasoline cars. If I’m in a rush and I revert to my old habits, I get in the mid 40′s and pay the price. But if I use the speed limit as a ceiling instead of as a floor, I get unbelievable gas mileage. Not only that, but I’m a safer driver to boot and I don’t have to worry about tickets or losing my good driver discount on my insurance.
Finally, if the auto industry required all cars and trucks to have these computer screens installed, everyone would be getting better gas mileage because they would see first-hand how wasteful their driving habits are. You don’t have to drive a Prius to get better gas mileage. But you do have to own one if you want to go well over 500 miles on ten gallons of gas.
On my last tank of gas I went over 510 miles on just over 9.1 gallons. Thank you Toyota!
“Carbon debt” aside.. I drive a 1984 Mercedes Turbo Deisel. I get 30mpg, and I blow an assload of black smoke out if I gun the engine too much… but hey I look good (better than your souped up golf-cart)
Osama bin Laden thanks you, too. But the men and women fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan wish you would get a tune up and start driving differently.
The King of Saudi Arabia, the President of Iran, Hugo Chavez, and as Qaeda thank you for driving the way you do and are tickled pink that you look better than I do driving my Prius.
I’m sure you realize a Prius will blow your doors off like you’re standing still.
^best car ever. lol
GO TO HELL!
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
Ugly looking car for the bunch of brainwashed SUCKERS.
Your blog just awful.
You make no sense.
You’re retarded.
The Prius brainwash…
Please explain. Does the Prius not get 45mpg? Does it not produce 75 per cent less emissions than a regular car? How have I been brainwashed? Idiots.
It also contributes an extra 57,000 batteries to the environment AND you get to look like a total knob while driving it. It’s a win-win!
Hey bis…
Not to mention that the battery used in the prius is made with Ni-MH (Nickel-Metal Halide), which to me leaves an even BIGGER impact on the environment. Talk about “make money now, forget our future”, Toyota has this down pat! Ni-MH batteries contain Mercury! Thats right folks, the same stuff everyone is worried about contaminating the environment and causing that “mad as a hatter” thing to come back, Toyota uses to load their batteries with. Lets do some math;… Each battery weighs in at a hefty 57 Kg, and each of the 240 cells containing as much as 24% MH, each prius battery pack that hits the ground contributes 13-14 Kg of MH to the environment. Hope this opens someones eyes.
Oh really? I knew about flourescent light bulbs are toxic and you need a hazmat team to remove them safely. The advocating of one “clean” thing that pollutes over another allegedly polluting element is … hypocritical. +
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