The Prius is a technological achievement, but it's a bit small to be useful in Australia or America. The Hybrid Toyota Camry, however, is proving very popular with taxi drivers in Australia , and as Aussie motoring journo and engineer ...
Does not compute, Captain. Homophobia is an inner lack of confidence about one's own sexuality. Hating the Prius, on the other hand, is an often justified lack of confidence in some people not being self-righteous, supercilious knobs.
I think that the hate is not directly for what the car is but what it stood for in the initial days of hybrids.... The so called moral superiority that owning a Prius stood for...
Just like the BMW is for cocks. Strangely enough I found this quote from Clarkson about the BMW X5 M: ‘There's a gallon of fuel gone there, and another there...and yet another there. As a matter of fact, the only way this car could be less annoying to eco-mentalists is if its engine ran on sliced dolphin.’
It's hated because most the people that drive a Prius drive it to virtue signal to other environmentalists. It is not so much the car itself that is hated, as the people that drive it, but the two are too intertwined to separate.
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Hating the Prius is like being homophobic. It’s just nervousness, really.
The Prius is a technological achievement, but it's a bit small to be useful in Australia or America. The Hybrid Toyota Camry, however, is proving very popular with taxi drivers in Australia , and as Aussie motoring journo and engineer ...
Read moreDoes not compute, Captain. Homophobia is an inner lack of confidence about one's own sexuality. Hating the Prius, on the other hand, is an often justified lack of confidence in some people not being self-righteous, supercilious knobs.
It's not so much the car, it's the "self righteous" bastards that (can't) drive them or drive anything for that matter.
I think that the hate is not directly for what the car is but what it stood for in the initial days of hybrids.... The so called moral superiority that owning a Prius stood for...
It's the drivers. I call it the Pious.
Just like the BMW is for cocks. Strangely enough I found this quote from Clarkson about the BMW X5 M: ‘There's a gallon of fuel gone there, and another there...and yet another there. As a matter of fact, the only way this car could be less annoying to eco-mentalists is if its engine ran on sliced dolphin.’
It's hated because most the people that drive a Prius drive it to virtue signal to other environmentalists. It is not so much the car itself that is hated, as the people that drive it, but the two are too intertwined to separate.