Calling Prius a limo is a stretch for some

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Without discussion, the county's Public Transportation Commission rejected his request Wednesday to license the trendy fuel-sipping car as a limousine. It would have been the first hybrid vehicle licensed for public hire in Hillsborough.

The owner of TB Limo Black Car Service in North Redington Beach, Leib groused that commissioners didn't talk over his proposal. Chairman Kevin White posed the only question: Did you bring a picture of the car?

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/09/Business...s_a_limo_.shtml

[hyo silver]

You know, I've been thinking of making a Prius limo. Out of WeePris, of course. We'll see how that goes first, and then if we have a couple of willing volunteers, I'll break out the cutting torch.

Note to Tamiya: Please, please, can you make a scale model Prius? I'll buy several, I promise.

[Sufferin' Prius Envy]

What the customer wants, the customer can't get in Hillsborough.

So, if you want "limo service" you are automatically forced to be transported around in a monster sized vehicle?
Now there's some forward thinking. <_<

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Aug 9 2007, 11:32 PM) [snapback]493438[/snapback]</div>

What the customer wants, the customer can't get in Hillsborough.

So, if you want "limo service" you are automatically forced to be transported around in a monster sized vehicle?
Now there's some forward thinking. <_<
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Florida is too busy counting ballots than to devote resources to innovation. there is hope in the article though.


"Hybrid vehicles are beginning to show up in limo fleets nationwide, said Camella Lobo, assistant editor of Limousine & Chauffeured Transportation magazine, a monthly trade publication.

About 100 of the 8,500 limo and car service companies in the United States have at least one vehicle running on hybrid engines or biodiesel fuel, she said."

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The Tampa Bay entrepreneur is not alone...

All Steven Frei wants to do is drive people to the airport in one of the most fuel-efficient cars on the market.

But doing what's best for the environment, the Toronto entrepreneur discovered, isn't necessarily allowed under city rules.

Frei, co-founder of Green Limousine Inc., can currently operate his "green" limo service in Ajax and Pickering, but not in Toronto, where a bylaw that stipulates vehicle size, trunk space and passenger legroom restricts the use of the most popular and energy-efficient hybrid cars.

"They restrict the vehicles to large gas-guzzlers," said Frei, 44, who quit his job as a business analyst at the Toronto Stock Exchange to start the new venture with partner Kirsten Douglas...[/b]

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On the other hand, there are green limo services already in many big cities:

3 Passenger Toyota Prius Mid-Sized Hybrid Limo

Ecolimo

And of course, this:

OZOcar offers the ultimate luxury service tailored to your needs. Kick back and relax. Check your email with the high-speed wireless connection provided in every car. Choose your own satellite radio station. Put your feet up. Switch off. Know that we will get you to your destination efficiently, safely, and on-time...[/b]

http://www.ozocar.com/

[NoMoShocks]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(zenMachine @ Aug 9 2007, 10:53 PM) [snapback]493429[/snapback]</div>

Without discussion, the county's Public Transportation Commission rejected his request Wednesday to license the trendy fuel-sipping car as a limousine. It would have been the first hybrid vehicle licensed for public hire in Hillsborough.

The owner of TB Limo Black Car Service in North Redington Beach, Leib groused that commissioners didn't talk over his proposal. Chairman Kevin White posed the only question: Did you bring a picture of the car?

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/09/Business...s_a_limo_.shtml
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[Tideland Prius]

The comments (for once) are actually worth reading!

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(catgic @ Aug 12 2007, 06:27 AM) [snapback]494252[/snapback]</div>

zenMachine --- Who needs the local county PTC bureaucrats to “bless” my fuel-sipping Prius as a “Limousine?” Here in the Principauté d'Poliakonia on El Paraíso de Florida’s Space Coast, my Mighty and Super White fuel-sipper IS the Family "Limo."

We purchased our 2007 fuel-miser to stop the depletion of “Petrol $$$$ Dollars” from the “Lock Box” in our Family's Coffers, and got an unexpected bonus of a mid-sized sedan with room to haul “stuff” and "Limo-Sized" leg and headroom.

Now we can “Limo” over to the Annual Cowboy and Cowgirl “Black & White” Charity Gala Fund Raiser in Space Coast “Florida Cracker” style. My bride and me in front and our guests in the rear passenger compartment riding “Tall-In-The-Saddle.” Down the Tropical Trail, we go in my Prius “Limo” with our Stetsons donned head-top, Max Hat-Top Headroom overhead clearance to spare, and no banging of knees on the backside of the front seats by rear seat passengers as we amble along down the road.


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Tropical Trail? Hey, I know where that is. Merritt Island, correct?

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