Just saw this headline on fark.com, "Toyota Hybrid Sports Car "Priapus" Gets Greenlight" http://www.glossynews.com/artman/publish/t...iapus-845.shtml Cost will be around $72k US , Germany will get it first around xmas '04 and expect it here about 3 months later. I wonder what the wait list will be like? AA
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.
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)
The story's a joke, but I've found a name for my car! Common poeple will think it's just a play on "Prius". Perhaps 4 - 5 people will know enough about Latin tradition to tie it to the god. But when I mentioned to my doctor-wife that I wanted to name my car Priapus, she asked if that had anything to do with Priapism, the condition in which the erect penis does not return to the flacid state. Well, it does now!! :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.
