Get in line for the Priapus aka Volta

I would have thought they could do better than 30MPG in normal driving conditions.... I mean, a manual corvette gets like almost 25 MPG combined city/highway, and it just as fast. Still, the car looks sweet and is fast and if I was super rich and liked sports cars i'm sure i'd buy it.

 

Um, this is a joke site. Check out the Onion-type headlines of their other "stories." Ten points to the others who realized this.

A search for Priapus will inform you why no car maker would willingly choose that name. Voltagra is equally unlikely.

 

A more plausible (and perhaps more entertaining) story from these same folks may be seen at http://www.glossynews.com/artman/publish/o...ating_505.shtml

 

My first reaction was: Is that picture showing the car from the front or the back? And: I ain\'t buying an expensive sports car unless it\'s all-electric. I want a tzero!!! :x Other than that, I'm always suspicious of anything I see on the internet, unless I know something about the source.

 

Non-existant? The article is satire.

/fellow Farker

 

Priapus????????
I hope it's a joke, here in italy, where latin tradition is quite alive, should be a real funny thing. Priapus was the latin god of male fertility, he was always represented with an enormous erected phallus. Many times the Priapus "ermae" (sacred monuments) did not represent any human form, but the phallus and were posed in front of the houses to protect family from negative spells. At this link http://www.planetware.com/photos/I/PMP7.HTM you can see a Priapus image from Pompei paintings (btw the painting is not in a bordello, as the site states, but on the front door of two rich brothers)

 

It's a joke, and even though it's latin, it still has a very phallic meaning in English. :mrgreen:

 

I also know there's a reference to it in the movie Dreamcatcher, so a good number of people might know it from that.