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| Prius Main Forum This is a discussion on CBS News Tonight within the Prius Main Forum forums, part of the Toyota Prius Forums category; I took this from another board. A promo for this evening's broadcast appears to be about hybrids and their fuel ... |
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05-28-2004, 12:45 PM
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 |  CBS News Tonight I took this from another board. A promo for this evening's broadcast appears to be about hybrids and their fuel economy. Looks like a negative story. |
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05-28-2004, 03:03 PM
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0  Friends: 0 | Wow, anyone else catch the sig as a line from George Michael's song 'Freedom '90'? Cool! I look forward to seeing this piece tonight... domestic carmakers got caught with their pants down so now they have to try to minimize their damage by attacking the more visionary companies like Toyota and Honda. I ordered my silver #9 a couple months ago and I've been suffering slings and arrows from the grossly underinformed people I work with. "Its 0-60 is too slow!" --- I had a Lexus SC400, so now I know I have no desire for a sports car. "It's new technology!" --- Let's see, this is the third iteration of Toyota's hybrid tech and the Prius has been on sale in Japan since what, 1996? Plus, it's not like it's a typically poor domestic design. "It's too small!" --- Yeah, compared to my current car (a 1995 Avalon XLS) it's small... but it's like Dr. Who's Tardis. Small on the outside, roomy on the inside. I don't need a full-size car anyhow; mid-size suits me just fine. ...and so on. Considering I work in the technology department of a school district, my cobitches are pretty flatheaded about cool automotive tech  |
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05-28-2004, 03:17 PM
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| nacreous lacquer Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: United States
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My Car: 2004 Prius Package: #6 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | Quote:
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05-28-2004, 03:44 PM
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | Yes, the 2004 Prius uses Toyota's third hybrid engine from the accounts I've read. I assume the first version never made it out of the labs or it was used in a very low-production Japanese car... |
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05-28-2004, 03:57 PM
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | Quote:
That was the first gen; the Prius Classic is the second gen (2000); the 2004 Prius is the third gen. | |
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05-28-2004, 04:38 PM
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #8 Nominated 26 Times in 8 Posts  TOTM Awards: 1Friends: 25 | If anybody can get it on a DVR I can host it.
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05-28-2004, 06:36 PM
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0    Friends: 0 | I think the prius story may have been dumped because of Shell pulling a large number of stations. If not I will extract from my Replay. Peace, Fr. Bill |
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05-28-2004, 07:01 PM
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | Well the story was just aired and they didn't have ONE Prius owner to say that they were unhappy with the milage of the car. In fact the only hybrid owner that was not happy was a Honda owner. I know someone in Yahoo Prius G2 was looking all week for an unhappy owner,but he couldn't find one and he was getting 51.8 on his last tank.  ops: |
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05-28-2004, 08:00 PM
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My Car: 2004 Prius Package: #9 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | Pete Blackshaw is the only hybrid driver they had on. He's on a crusade. He has a website up http://hybridbuzz.blogspot.com/ |
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