I take issue with this!!!! This is not true! I have a Chevy Silverado crew-cab Duramax diesel! Just because I have a large truck does NOT mean I have a larg....... uh....well, I am offended....I mean....humbled.




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I was surprised a few months back when turned away from driving up the Mt. Washington Auto Road in a Prius. Apparently, they had sufficient problems with Toyota cars with CVT on the downhills that they banned them pending further study. They have now reversed the ban, and allow hybrids on the auto road, but some still claim that engine braking doesn't work as well in hybrids on steep descents.

I can picture a prius heading down a rather steep section just as the the song "rollercoaster" starts up on the radio...

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

I love that song!!

Old-people music rules!!!

Weeeeee!!!

Guess it all depends on how you drive it.

Ahhh!!! I thought old people music was Bing Crosby or the Beetles... really old stuff like that.

That's kinda kinky.

There's just something sexy about a woman in a pickup, call me weird (my wife does).



Relax OutdoorDad, Breathe in, breathe out. I'm mostly just venting.

I used to drive a Ford F150 in high school/college (but I've matured some since then )

I don't see everyone in a pickup as reproductively challenged. Only those that tick me off.

When I've got some NASCAR-wanna-be (as evidenced by the racing numbers in the back window) shoving his bumper up my exhaust pipe, sometimes the only productive thing I can do is laugh at him since I don't view shooting at the fool or running him off the road as viable options. I'd communicate with sign language my displeasure but I prefer to have both hands on the steering wheel for safety reasons.

I don't get almost sodomized at 70-75mph by too many people in BMWs, Priuses, Mercedies, VW Bugs, etc. though I do get a large number of late adolescent males on crotch-rockets trying to run me over but they don't pose much of a threat.

I write them off as natural selection at work.

Though if you find yourself tailgating some bald-headed guy driving through Baton Rouge and he's laughing at you as you pass him, you'll get the joke!!

Look, Listen and Take Heed, a Public Improvement Film.

Thanks OBG! I tend to scan quickly through posts, so I tend to miss a lot of the subtleties.

Let's talk MPG's, then. I have a good friend who has had several Honda Civic's, hatchbacks lately. He has consistently gotten over 50 mpg on the highway, over 40 city with almost all of them, proven technology, and they all have over 200,000 miles on them with little or no maintenance trouble at all. Why would someone like that want to switch to a hybrid?

If I'm going for MPG, that's what I'd get.