Of course, it's not about the inoffensive machine. It's about the ugly, ignorant, arrogant self-righteousness of the people who drive them.
I'd feel sorry for Toyota...but they aggressively marketed them to just such people. So. Their bad.
"Prius drivers tend toward the type of people who likely drink organic apple juice, wear Birkenstocks and come to the grocery store with cloth satchels coldly staring down shoppers grabbing extra plastic bags.
Driving a Prius is like being an itinerant preacher with a Bible, sending a message without a word. A Prius is a sermon on wheels, a verbal lashing on the open highway. Prius drivers love the environment, are conscious of all things natural, eat quinoa and as an added bonus, at 50 miles to the gallon, have more money to send to Moveon.org.
Prius title-holders were self-righteously tooling along, listening to the Grateful Dead, staring down gas guzzling drivers who smoke and eat McDonalds, while listening to Heavy Metal..."
From American Thinker
The Gunslinger
Prius: my girlfriend calls them "suppositories".
While I don't like Priuses (Prii?) you're missing an important point. Toyota has made a buttload of money selling a car that is usually a bad economic decision to pretentious, self-absorbed greenies, who buy the car to, well, look holier than us. Personally, I wouldn't have problems taking money from stupid hippies for stupid cars.
ReplyDeleteThere's a story that US car companies looked at hybrids long ago and could see no economic justification for them, so they didn't develop them. Toyota's marketing genius was that these self-righteous greenies would willingly lose money to drive a car that "says something about me" - the number one response to "why did you buy your Prius", year in and year out.
I'm not sure Toyota is laughing behind their backs at Prius buyers, but I probably would be.
Amen, brother. Taking these assholes to the cleaners would make me very happy indeed.
ReplyDeleteEspecially doing so from a non-union shop!
Wow that's what I call "Prius class smug"
ReplyDeleteWait until the bill comes due for disposal of all those incredibly toxic batteries. We'll see how smug they are.