WHY?

Who cares? Can't you find a forum for Mustangs or street racers or something? FYI, one of our 'other' cars is a bonafide gas-guzzling Land Rover LR3 V8 HSE. It averages about 11 MPG in heavy-footed driving. On the other hand, I find our Prius much more enjoyable to drive. That's that!

 

Trophy wives are not too impressed with current production Mustangs. I suggest you sell your Mustang and start investing because the only chicks that are impressed with Mustangs are the kind that are impressed with Mustangs. Good luck.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gasgzzlerstang @ Jun 14 2006, 07:25 PM) [snapback]271394[/snapback]</div>

I let a friend borrow my car to renew his driver's liscence. The chick liked my car more than my friends driving, and the chick at the bank wanted to come out and see it when i got my loan...

...i can't say that with any other car i have owned...

also, 3 grand of your tax money is paying me to save money and have fun

...seems someone could be a little jealous...

Oh, i also forgot...

another friend has a 01 v8 mustang...

...he says his next car will most certainly be a hybrid

 

Why are we bashing other drivers. I have never seen a chick oogle over a prius or any hybrid car. but then again it is where you try to pick them up at. If you go to a drag strip, no one is gonna give you a glance because the people there are only interested in fast cars or cars that have they eye appeal. Fo someone stated that the prius has great handling....I doubt it would hold a chance to an EVO or STi. I have visited many of sites and see one major common characteristics....They believe their car is superior to everything on the road. That is fine having pride in one's car but people are taking it overboard. To those that read the thread about Prius racing and beating Mustang, Vipers, and Bike; come one step back into reality. These cars are built for economy and gas preservation. To race them is foolish, the prius DO NOT stand a chance.

 

agreed with derangedazn except that i have seen chicks oogle over the prius. i would say that most girls don't really care about really fast cars.. i'm not saying all don't care, i'm saying most don't care. Case in point: I go to the former General Motors Institute and the few girls we have here are busy being EE's, CE's, Biomedical Engineers, or Biology majors... not ME's. But talk about saving the environment and saving cute bunnies/cats/baby seals and they go goo goo for you

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(derangedazn @ Jun 17 2006, 02:24 AM) [snapback]272600[/snapback]</div>

Hi derageddan,

In the thread regarding Prius Racing, the visitors perverted the comments made by most of the Prius posters, then called the Prius posters idiots (for an idiotic assumption the visitors themselves made). This was the most illegitamate poisoning-the-well debate I have seen in a long time. Kinda reminded me of gun-boat-veterans attack on Sentator Kerry but with some profanity added in. After a whle even the Prius posters were believing one of the other Prius posters had made such obviously wrong claims.

When you say "Mustang" does one mean a 1967 original Mustang, a Boss 302 Mustang, a Mustang II, a convertible V6 Mustang from 5 years ago, or a recent Shelby Mustang 5.0 ? One of these vehicles is a true ground-up street performance car, and another is intended for acceleration performance in a street car. The rest are wanna-be performance cars, put together by a committee of marketing specialists (except maybe the 1967 Mustang), and they perform like it too. The comment made by the Prius poster was "Mustang".

Now, I actually have driven and repaired (oil pump and carboraetor) a 1967 289 cid Mustang coupe in the distant past. And I am sure the recent 5.0 Mustang is dramatically better in all respects. But the 1967 Mustang had taller tires than the Prius does, and those Mustang tires were bias ply and did not handle very well.

One has to laugh at that TV commercial for the 5.0 Mustang, where the son and father are burning rubber with it. Seems to me the reason the Mustang burns rubber is a design flaw, not the accelleration capability that the car design and engine can provide. Basically, the commercial flaunts this as a feature - odd. This very feature around here has coined a knickname for a hill in the next town over "Mustang Hll" . This 1/2 mile long hill is where 5 to 10 Mustangs will get stuck in snowy weather. The front wheel drive traffic has to detour around them (the police block the lane the Mustangs are in) as the Mustangs slide back, accellerate, loose traction and slide back again. The front drive traffic easily climbs this hill on the first try, car after car after car.

I do not remember any Prius person claiming any Prius would beat a Viper in accelleration. I think I remember a comment about a Wrightspeed X1 (an all electric car) having done that. I saw a video on the internet where the Wrightspeed X1 beating a Ferrari and $200 K Porshe (they gave the Porshe a running start) in a drag race.

As a sidenote, its reported in Green-Hybrid that F1 racing will have a hybrid (not specifically electric) provision in the rules in the future.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusguy04 @ Jun 14 2006, 07:39 PM) [snapback]271489[/snapback]</div>

Can anyone explain to me just why it is that so many of 'em hang out here? I mean, how many Prius owners hang out on Hummer boards and gloat how inferior all of the gazillion hummer drivers on the board are, and they are clearly neandertals, while only those who are enlightened enough to drive an Anti-Hummer deserve to exist...? PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME! I GIVE UP! I DON'T UNDERSTAND!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(remaxmanager @ Jun 15 2006, 01:10 PM) [snapback]271807[/snapback]</div>

Maybe about how big they are?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(flareak @ Jun 16 2006, 11:47 PM) [snapback]272603[/snapback]</div>

Ummm...we will proudly wear the chicks badge, at least some of us (see below), but those "girls" you are talking about...unless you have EEs etc. who are less than 18 or so years old? Hmmm? Or maybe the girls who dig fast and noisy cars and base their mating decisions on how big a guy's...engine...is don't object? Hey--I thought people around here were educable (mostly)!
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Oh, and around here, my BOYS have their BOY cars--a pair of bmws, one for the 18 year old (both boy and car are of 1987 vintage), and the other ('02) for the older (older by 37 years...) boy. My mother-in-law is totally mystified...her son, son-in-law and 2 of 4 grandsons (only 4 grandsons are old enough to drive) all drive beemers. I don't entirely get it either, but she seems satisfied when I tell her it's a guy thing...and it is an explanation that doesn't piss off the guys in question, either!

 

I don't modify my vehicles for "chicks". That's only superficial. I like modifications for my own personal gain, i.e. the car handling better, accelerating quicker, going faster. At the end of the day there is almost always going to be someone else out there with something faster.

So unless you can seal the deal by having a good personality, that girl is going to go find someone with a nicer or faster car and more money.

I've found the forum interesting because I have always wondered when someone would question the performance of a car geared around efficiency. "Racing" or driving "fast" is not efficient in my mind.

 

from a 23-year-old "chick"...

i don't care what you drive. i'm interested in a guy with
-a good personality
-a sense of humor
-stability (in all aspects of life)
-the potential to entertain me for a lifetime
-good looks
-and, well, a couple other physical attributes, to be honest :lol:

a fast car will NOT make up for lack of any of these things. you can fix your car or even buy a new one, but you can't fix a lack of/buy a new personality.

besides, a man who's comfortable enough in his manhood to not need a big growling sports car has a big advantage over a guy who "needs" his big sports car to feel like a man.

confidence is sexy, people. very sexy.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gasgzzlerstang @ Jun 15 2006, 07:16 PM) [snapback]271870[/snapback]</div>

 

:lol: @ squid...

most recent design mustangs (05 and newer) boast a whopping 23 mpg highway for the v8 engine and 17 city.

the last design (i used the 04) gets 17 city/24 highway.

no car out there meets EPA numbers under regular driving conditions. if you have the AC on, you're using more gas. plus, if you buy the mustang for power and are inclined to use it, you're not accelerating nice like they do in the EPA tests. more gas usage.

squid may have a relevant explanation...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ Jun 17 2006, 02:48 PM) [snapback]272749[/snapback]</div>

Well there you have it straight from a 23year old chick :lol: :lol: :lol:



Whos smokin rocks? :lol: :lol:

 

you can modify anyhting htat's why. People love ot be individuals and also add features like remote start or something. I see reasons for adding a modification to any car. Weather it be a Muscle Car, Edonobox, Hybrid, Exotic, or whatever.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ Jun 17 2006, 01:48 PM) [snapback]272749[/snapback]</div>

Yay, galaxee! You go, girl.

Don't tell me, you prefer blue eyes, right?

 

I really wouldn't know how to "pimp out" a Prius but it sounds like fun.

Everybody seems to have different tastes and from time to time threads become "internet famous" like the one about the Prius supposedly beating a Viper. It made sveeral different car boards and I suspect that is why there have been so many people trolling here lately.

One of my rides happens to be a Camaro. My 27 year old female cousin made a statement that Camaros are really uncool or something to that effect and she is probably right.

My car is quite loud, has a 383 stroker in it, Moser 12 bolt rear, skinnies up front and 12 1/2 x 15 x 18 ET Streets in the rear. It has a six point welded bar and dual 5-point harnesses. It also still meets the EPA estimated fuel ratings for the vehicle of 26mpg on the highway (my last trip was actually 28 mpg)... And it runs under 12 seconds in the quarter mile.

The Prius is a great little car that gets outstanding economy and rides like a larger car. Actually, it handles in a manner similiar to the new Mustangs except it doesn't corner as well and obviously doesn't have the power.

I am intrigued as to how someone would "pimp out" a Prius. My wife is planning on buying one for herself in the near future. I was hoping to have a manual switch to allow straight electric usage on demand as I suspect the electric motor will produce far more torque than the gasoline one. I want to take it to the track and try bracket racing with it as I believe it is possible to be more consistent with the electric motor than with a gasoline engine.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(donee @ Jun 17 2006, 06:14 AM) [snapback]272625[/snapback]</div>

Actually, in that thread, they didn't "pervert" the comments all that much. And in all honesty, a lot of the posters there WERE "idiots". Like I mean people were insistant that they beat or almost beat certain cars (Mustang GTs, M3, sport bikes, etc) in a full on race. Anyone that even thinks that is idiotic. All someone has to do is look at the performance numbers to get an idea about who would win in a full on race.

The answer is NOT a Prius.

The thing is, it shouldn't matter. The Prius is NOT a performance car. It's not a car meant for power, speed, or agile handling. It's a car that's comfortable, eco-friendly, and a fuel saver. The equivalent of a Mustang owner doing what those Prius owners were doing would be saying something like "My v6 Mustang gets great gas mileage. In fact, it got better gas mileage than the Civic, Civic Hybrid, and even the Prius!". The Mustang isn't a gas saving car. Trying to claim that it would defeat a fuel efficient car in fuel efficiency is retarded. Just as it is to claim a car not known for its performance can outperform performance cars. The forum where I got this link from doesn't allow "street kills" to be posted just because of this reason. It's incredibly dumb. Look at the numbers. If you beat a car that the numbers say you shouldn't beat, it means the other guy either wasn't trying or was a lousy driver.

And I do think it's sad that some Mustang drivers stick by their cars so much because they feel they're chick magnets. I remember one Mustang owner who came over to post something about how their engine sounded so great that it made chicks "wet" when the chicks heard it. That's really pathetic if they bought their cars just because they think it'd get them chicks.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tnthub @ Jun 19 2006, 06:43 PM) [snapback]273629[/snapback]</div>

Hi tnthub,

I do not believe anybody said a Prius beat a Viper. I think the guy said he was in a Lexus GS450H ($56K, 340 hp hybrid coupe, check out http://www.lexus.com/models/gs_hybrid/index.html). Even so, who is to know the Viper pilot was competent.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(donee @ Jun 19 2006, 05:51 PM) [snapback]273636[/snapback]</div>

It was the RX400h actually. Which is relatively fast. But the whole point is, if the Viper driver REALLY wanted to win, he could've. The most likely scenario was the Viper driver wanted to race, misshifted, lost ground, tried to make up ground, realized that it wasn't worth the ego stroke and backed off. If the Viper driver really wanted to, he could've put it into the right gear then floored it and eventually he would've caught up, but if the misshift was really bad he'd probably catch up at like 120+mph, which is pretty dangerous to just show off. That was the most believable story IMO, but I think that fits under "bad driver transitioning into not actually racing".

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gasgzzlerstang @ Jun 15 2006, 08:58 PM) [snapback]272023[/snapback]</div>

I got to hand it to u gas guzzler, Al gore is stupid and might be up to something with the whole global warming thing that everyone is concerned of. I do have a prius, but not because it grows money from the key slot, but because I like it the same way gasguzz. likes his white trash ferrari and for all of those people who think the prius and some old classic rustand or white trash ferrari, whatever is called thinks its good. Its not. I guarntee anyone who gets just a little rich, will sell the prius and the stang and go for some high class car. You all know its true.