I'm not sure if the wheels can take the weight. Also note that the Prius is fairly low to the ground. It'll need better tyres and uprated suspension to carry the weight around. Not to mention more power. Then again, it's probably more efficient than a Town Car limo.
This is FUNNY . Look at the add that showed-up just beneath you post when I looked at the thread. [Broken External Image]:http://desun.epfl.ch/~rubinst/prius-h2.jpg Abraham
Seeing as how Toyota would be making it I imagine they would take those things into account. I am sure it is just a "photo-shopped" picture.
Caught me! The original image was stolen from Toyota's web page, and is a simple black 2005 Prius. The Toyota web site tints the windows, so I didn't have to do anything with the tinting. A portion of the back door was cloned multiple times to add length to the body, and the rear portion (including the back door) was pasted in farther to the left. The newly added window section between the front and rear doors was covered with a cloned paintbrush from the lower body panel, and the opera lights were stolen from a website that sells them, resized, arranged in a unit of three, and then cloned three times across the body. Challenges? Getting the shading to look natural on the new side of the 'limo'. This took some time. Also, cleaning up any bad repeating elements from the shadow underneath. I wasn't entirely happy with the 'look' of the new windowed section, and almost left it as normal tinting without the opera lights. I agree that the frame probably isn't stiff enough to hold the weight, and the engine probably isn't powerful enough to haul the extra weight anyway. As for the power cable, the battery probably would have been relocated to somewhere right behind the driver's seat, so that wouldn't have been as much of an issue. Still, it looks kind of cool. Dan
That's not how most limosine's are made. Limosine makers (not toyota) take the cars they want to turn into Limo's, cut them in half and fill in the blanks. One advantage would be that you'd have more seats to put batteries under, but the added weight would be killer!
