Jeremy Clarkson, sticks it to the Prius

The Australian - WIKIPEDIA says the Toyota Prius looks like and performs like a normal car but delivers 50 per cent better fuel economy. That's not true. A Prius doesn't look or perform like a normal car and it will do only 5.2 litres per 100km, far, far less than you'd get from a Golf diesel, say. I harbour a belief, founded on an admittedly limited grasp of science, that if you removed the electric motor and the batteries from a Toyota Prius, you'd save so much weight that it would become more economical and therefore even kinder to the environment.

But saving polar bears is not the point of a hybrid car. The point is not to save the planet but to be seen trying. I saw a Prius the other day with the registration plate Hug Life and that's what the car does. It says to other road users: "I've spent a lot of money on this flimsy p.o.s and I'm chewing a lot of fuel, too. But I'm making a green statement." Think of it, then, as a big metal beard, a pair of open-toed sandals with wheels, David Cameron with windscreen-wipers.

'Flimsy piece of shit', apt description, love it.

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