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quayzar
11/16/09

In reply to Toyota Prius Is A "Butt Buddy?"
This is actually a good metaphor for how the hybrid system works. It maybe the butt of jokes but it conveys the point very well.

On a side note I'm always surprised when I continue to see Oh, what a feeling in these current adverts even if the phrase is not literally spoken.
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Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
11/14/09

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Poor Wes, all the "butt" jokes fall his way... The penalty of having such a nice ass... #toyotaprius
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theeastbaykid
11/13/09

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I could let the murdering of pedestrians and bicyclists slide, but being gay...that calls for raising a bunch of money at church! #toyotaprius
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FrankGrimes
11/13/09

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would have been just as effective with them side beside instead of down under. #toyotaprius
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that ain't the way to have fun, son
11/13/09

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I'd just run with butt ugly, and leave it at that.

Pain-in-the-butt works, too. #toyotaprius
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AmishJohn
11/13/09

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They're just making The Rainbow Connection. #toyotaprius
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Brimful of Ash on the 78
11/13/09

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Homo habilus
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
Homo prius #toyotaprius
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Alfisted
11/13/09

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So my boss is a Prius? #toyotaprius
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Heavern2
11/13/09

@Alfisted: I get it, he is always on your ass? #toyotaprius
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Alfisted
11/13/09

@Heavern2: Bingo #toyotaprius
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sos10
03/25/09

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A hybrid Wagon please!
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brandegee
03/25/09

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Clearly the market is there...the Accord hybrid failed, but nearly every other hybrid has seen solid sales. I predict a smaller hybrid from Ford at some point soon...maybe on the new global Focus platform.
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Cognitive Friction
03/25/09

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Toyota should hire Mr Knit Knots from the Imagination Movers* to sell these

* Imagination Movers reference will only make sense if you have a toddler and the Disney channel
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wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx
03/25/09

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I hate the Yaris. I drove it once as a rental. One of the worst cars...I can think of...thats still in production.

A hybrid? I could care less.
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SuzanneD
03/25/09

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It's telling that this news fails to inspire anything but overwhelming ambivalence in me.

"Hybrid" as a descriptive term is rapidly becoming as exciting as "FWD."
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engineerd
03/25/09

@SuzanneD: Yeah, Five Wild Dentists are no more exciting than One Wild Dentist.
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
03/25/09

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You've got to be kidding me.

Does anyone realize how bad all of these batteries are for the enviroment? No one cares.

So this truck driver, carrying a load of Prius, stops at a rest stop and goes inside to get some speed. As he's paying at the counter, the clerk pulls out a gun and shoots a guy getting out of a Prius. The truck driver screams "What the hell did you do that for?" The clerk responds, "He's a hyper-miler, it's hyper-miler season, you could shoot as many as you want."

Later on, the truck driver is driving down the highway when his trailer comes loose, spilling the "Priuses" all over the highway. Hyper-milers come running up from everywhere, attempting to jump into the priuses, and the trucker starts shooting them. Seconds later a police officer pulls up officer shows up and starts screaming at the trucker to stop shooting.

The trucker says, "Why, it's hyper-miler season, I can shoot as many as I want."

And the police officer says, "Well sure you can, but you're not allowed to bait them."
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
03/25/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: Sorry for the repeat words, my work computer is on the fritz.
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engineerd
03/25/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: That was funny. And well thought out. It's stuff like this that should get you a star.
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A strolling player
03/25/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: The batteries are almost entirely recyclable, you know. And they're going to be recycled, too--you don't think Toyota requires a dealer to send the old one back when they order a new battery?
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
03/25/09

@A promenading performer: It's the production of the batteries that is so damaging. I'm sure battery materials and technology will improve though.
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RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment
03/25/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli:

Is there any reason to assume the battery cleanliness will improve faster than fossil fuel tech, decreasing it's output?
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A strolling player
03/25/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: The production of twice as much sheet metal, four times as much iron, twice as much upholstery... all that stuff that goes into a run-of-the-mill SUV is pretty damaging, too.

Honestly, the effect of battery production on the environment is overblown. No, it's not exactly 'green', but it's offset within a year or two of driving the car anyway.
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
03/25/09

@A promenading performer: No way. Please consider that it's mined in Canada, manufactured in Ireland, shipped to Japan for assembly, and then the cars are shipped to the U.S. That's the way it was for the Prius battery as a last year.
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Tyson
03/25/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: So? All the steel used in a car is mined in China, melted down in gigantic blast furnaces, formed into huge rolls of steel, shipped to America, melted again, formed into sheet metal, then made into body panels for a car. The fact that nickle is mined in Canada, then shipped across the world doesn't make it any worse then any other raw material we use. Aluminum is far worse, just based on the amount of energy it takes to smelt, and its shipped as ore from Australia to the pacific northwest for refining most of the time, before it ever goes out as a finished product.
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A strolling player
03/25/09

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: On top of what Tyson said, the nickel in the NiMH battery is the only problematic part as its mining isn't a friendly process. However, the nickel is also almost entirely recycled with each battery, so it's a one-time thing.

And the manufacture of a car only comprises 5-8% of the total environmental impact. That Hummer v. Prius study everyone loves to quote was bunk science; most of a car's impact is from its usage. It doesn't have to be explained why or that the Prius excels here.
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
03/25/09

@Tyson: @A promenading performer: The Prius uses steel as well, and nickel isn't only metal in the battery.

Anyway, forget this crap, what did you think of the joke?
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
03/25/09

@rlj676-Carbon Footprint Size - Clownshoe: No, probably not faster, yet anyway.
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brandegee
03/25/09

@A promenading performer: Exactly. Vehicle usage is the culprit. The amount of oil waste run-off (this just the stuff that drips from your F150 and Prius) in the U.S. amounts to six Valdez spills a year.

The price of gas lowered its consumption in the U.S. by about 5% last year. If the Prius leads to cost savings in such a climate, people may be encouraged to drive more (and faster). Again, back to usage.
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Graverobber
03/25/09

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Every time I hear of the Toyota Yaris I have to use its name in a sentence while speaking like a pirate- such as "Yaris a good car, 'tis true."

I guess a pirate with the ubiquitous wooden peg leg would be a kind of a hybrid. See? Synergy works!
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engineerd
03/25/09

@Graverobber: I can't stop laughing. Or talking like a pirate.

Great, I was already on thin ice after talk like a pirate day.
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Jo Schmo
03/25/09

@Graverobber: All this talk of hybrids is like having a steering wheel sticking out of my pants.
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