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.

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."

The Tampa Bay entrepreneur is not alone...

News

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:

http://www.ozocar.com/

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

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Here's an update on the Tampa Prius limo story published last week in the St Petersburg Times.
A State Rep has now gotten involved and urged the county to rethink its policy.
Here's a link to The Fueling Station blog where the letter was published today.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/energy/2007/08/l...company-ow.html

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A Hummer Limo Service that's posting on a Prius chat board?
And the poster drives a #9?
Hmmm....
HMMMMM.....

Yowsah!!

Here in Adelaide South Australia if you wanted to have any 4 cylinder car for a limousine that would be tough. It doesn't matter how wonderful or special your car is, if it has less than 6 cylinders it can't be a limo. I can't wait for the brain explosion when the passenger transport board has an aplication from someone wanting to use an electric car. Stupid rules!!

It's where government attempts at writing rules fail. Has to be six cylinders? Why? Has to be a luxury vehicle? Define luxury. What's the point of attempting at defining the specifics of a vehicle that would be defined as a limo? A cadillac or a mercedes would be presumed to be luxury rides perhaps but that sort of leaves out a hummer. That's one vehicle that definitely is not luxury. Besides, limo service is a service, not a specific conveyance. Of course, the municipality may have been in cozy circumstance with the biggest local limo service and the rules were defined as a method of protectionism.

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I don't see a Prius listed anywhere.

I think the Hummer limos are the most bloated, ugly, obscene things I've ever seen. I wouldn't step foot in one if I was in my wedding dress and late for the church.

Ladies and gents, meet the hybrid limo.
Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation in Brighton recently added a fully loaded black Toyota Prius hybrid to its fleet of Benzes, Lincoln Town Cars and stretches, with plans to add at least a half-dozen more hybrids by early September.
Dawson Rutter, company founder and president, purchased the Prius in early July after a Hollywood studio requested hybrids exclusively for use during a Boston visit.
Rutter said he had to rent the cars from dealers - no small task - and realized it was in the company’s best interest to update his fleet.
“That put the bug in my head,†said Rutter.
“As a progressive company, we should get ahead of the hybrid wave.â€
As a result, Rutter said, his is the first luxury car service in the country to provide environmentally choosy customers with the eco-friendly car of their dreams - the Prius.

Hybrid limo not a stretch for Brighton co.

The reason for the restrictions is to stop people starting cut price limo services which undermine the taxi industry. A taxi licence is worth about $150,000AU and are generally owned by wealthy people who lease them to taxi operators. They provide an excelent investment and the government protect that investment with regulation. The image of the city is the reason for the regulation, well that's the reason given.

I believe if people want a Prius or Datsun 120Y limo they should be able to hire it if someone is willing to offer it and it meets a safe maintainance standard.

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You've never been to Florida, I see. hahaha...

Court: Prius Lacks Luxury To Be Hillsborough Limo

A Toyota Prius is not a limousine, according to a panel of federal judges.
In a decision affirming a lower court ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Pinellas County limo company owner Moshe Leib after Hillsborough regulators said it was a stretch calling the gas-stingy Prius a limousine...