VOTE your Priuschat Moderator a chance to drive the Lexus Hybrid for a year

well daniel, i think it only interests him because its different. i doubt if he is entertaining any notion of buying one. u know the old adage; "try anything once" ...nothing wrong with that

as far as "fun to drive"... i categorize my Zenn as more "adventurous" which i guess could be in the "fun" category

 

Adventurous because it's unsafe, or because it's unreliable? I gather you've had a lot of problems with it. My Xebra has been surprisingly reliable.

Yeah, I know. Sigh! But if I was emperor, things would be different around here! I think I should be emperor.

 

nah mine is reliable enough. i dont drive it more than half its range without charging any more. i used to do errands with it, but use the 2010 for that (otherwise the car would sit most of the time. as it is, i only drive it 5-7 times every two weeks) so now its back and forth to work plugging in at both ends and trips to store which is 3½ miles RT. my son has this developmental daycare group kind of thing once a week that is 5 miles RT. i drop him off for an hour and usually go home, charge up and come pick him up. not sure i would do that with a regular car, but considering it costs me less than a dime to do it, why not?

but then again, i guess its not the money and i have taken to his group thing on the bike a dozen so times this summer but probably only to justify my otherwise wasteful actions and to make my son feel better. ya see, in the Zenn he gets to ride in the front seat so he misses that a lot since he only gets to ride in it once to a few times a week now as opposed to 3-4 times a week like before

its just that, its always an adventure driving it. its either being acosted in the parking lot and grilled about the Zenn or having idiots tailgate me (usually on a double lane road) just to going flying around me to slam on their brakes at the redlight half a block down the road. either way, its definitely not boring.

 

Well, it's too bad you cannot use it more. While the Porsche waits to be worked on, I drive my Xebra everywhere I go in town. I do get a lot of attention from people wanting to know about it, and I enjoy that. I don't get tailgated, but maybe that's because Spokane is a more laid-back city than the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia megalopolis with its legendary traffic snarl. I could not live in a place with that kind of traffic.

 

well, hopefully, i will have other options available soon

 

Wow, today I got notification that I am a winner of a 1 week test drive after all! I guess some people didn't get return their paperwork in time, didn't qualify or balked. 15 votes ended up making the new cutoff.

It's got to be notarized so I hope I don't run into trouble w/me having moved to WA recently and still having a CA license.

Too bad my commute now is only ~2.5 miles one way. It used to be 23+ miles one way.

 

It's good, not bad, that your commute is shorter. You have reduced your footprint! You can still waste some gas during your "test" week, driving as far as you like in the Lexus. (But I hope you won't! )