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

OK, I tried. I get a message saying, "However, for the vote to count, you need to log in if you're a registered voter." Then in the registration window it says I'll be entered into the random drawing for the chance to drive it for a year. In other words, if I register to vote for you then it seems I would enter myself. Am I missing something?

 

I've voted for you.

Please feel free to do the same for me
Lexus Drive HS Promotion

 

I've voted for the Evan as well. Please feel free to do the same for me while you're at it.

Lexus Drive HS Promotion

 

I clicked you 4 or 5 votes ... just for good measure. Say you win. Do I get a ride?

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Weren't you going on sabbatical sometime soon? Does that make it a wasted vote?

 

The web site says that you can't vote more than once for the same driver BUT you can vote once for as many individual drivers as you wish.

So, please vote for me (link below) along w/everyone else here.
Lexus Drive HS Promotion

 

Lexus Drive HS Promotion

 

Well, that should take care of Monday. For the rest of the week, you can compare tire wear.

 

How many votes did you end up with? Unfortunately, our voting links don't seem to work anymore.

It would be interesting to hear what cutoff was for winners. I only had 15 votes and wondered if I was even close to making the cut.

 

Dang, I'd figured you'd already won the Lexus ... & had been driving it around for a good amount of time already. Better luck next time.

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i hope you make some nice pictures and a review here on pc

 

Congrats on getting the loan of the car for a week, Evan. It's not a car I'd be much interested in driving, but you wanted it, so I'm glad at least you'll be getting a taste of it. Now if they let me drive a Tesla for a week, that'd be cool. Almost as much fun as my Xebra.

I don't think I'll ever have much enthusiasm for a gasoline car again. I have to drive the Prius for road trips, but I'm (not optimistically) hoping to see the day when I can drive to my Canada hiking trips using electricity.

 

well congrats!!

since i voted for you, does that mean i get an hour's worth?

 

Luxury cars are comfortable. I had to go from L.A. to Ventura and I took a limo service because it was no more expensive than a regular taxi. (Not a stretch. Just a Lincoln Town Car.) And I could not book an efficient car as I'd have preferred. It was a very pleasant ride.

But a Lexus hybrid burns more gas than a Prius, and for that reason I would not trade even if it was even money.

Most people choose to live in the kind of city where you have to go on the freeway. I choose to live in a city where I can use the Xebra for most of my driving. In another thread some guy said he would make environmentally-responsible choices only if it would not cost him money. Some folks will make environmentally-responsible choices only if it does not require them to alter their lifestyle choices. The Prius allows us to burn 1/3 less gas while making no lifestyle changes. We get to call ourselves environmentalists without sacrificing anything at all.

But the fuel is running out, and changes are going to be forced on us. We can choose to cling to the old ways until the last minute, making the transition more difficult when it is forced on us; or we can make lifestyle changes now, thereby easing the transition.

Even here in Spokane, where a Xebra is perfectly adequate for in-town driving, because you can get anywhere without taking the freeway, there are only two or three of them. And yet the Xebra is really fun to drive. Any new toy is fun, and I had fun with my Prius when it was new. But I've had the Xebra for over two years now, and it's still more fun to drive than the Prius was when it was new! The trick, which is hard for me, is to be patient and not be in a hurry, because it accelerates more slowly, and so the trip downtown, which takes maybe 20 minutes in the Prius, takes about 25 minutes in the Xebra.

I envy you that Tesla Model S you're going to get! I'm just kind of surprised that a Lexus, with its lower FE compared to the Prius, would interest you.

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