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- sterntastic223, on 12/12/2007, -1/+7It sells out completely, though.
- Nanite, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6Maybe if they hadn't had a hand in killing the electric car 20 years ago they wouldn't have to spend so much money now on "The Next Big Thing"...
- moocow1452, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5Spitting image of the Gen 5 Malibu, why is the design studio needed?
- loudthing, on 12/12/2007, -2/+7Electic cars will never work. The only way to harness the 1.21 Jiggawatts needed is through a bolt of lightening!
- d3s3rtdrag0n, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5For the record, the Prius is Toyota's 3rd best selling vehicle (16,737 sold) as of November 2007. Only the Camry (35,409 sold) and Corolla (25,012 sold) were more popular.
- inactive, on 12/12/2007, -2/+6At least one company is working towards making a decent-looking, fuel-efficient (in the city) car. Practically every other hybrid car is butt-ugly.
- hoppdawg, on 12/12/2007, -1/+5The design studio needs to move the ***** out of the Detroit area.
They should go somewhere that attracts top designers like the southern bay area. Toyota has their American studio in southern California. - Error601, on 12/12/2007, -1/+5"An interesting statement only because the Prius doesn't look good and we know how it has sold."
Last I read, the Prius is only a small percentage of even Toyota only sales. - gtluke, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3it takes me 5 minutes to "recharge" my gas car to go another 350 miles
i think thats another important step. electric cars + vacation/trip = no - unfilterthought, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3so you do 180 miles in one day? Or cumulatively? The statistically longest commute in the US is 40 miles.
Average commute is less than 30 miles daily. An electric car can easily cover that.
While YOU may not care, a lot of people in this country can benefit from an electric car.
For example...we won't need to depend on foreign oil as heavily. - num3thod, on 12/12/2007, -5/+8Who killed the electric car?
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectricca ...
According to this documentary, GM's EV1 was the bomb... - schnikies79, on 12/12/2007, -1/+3I'll get an electric car when I can get 200+mi/charge with the headlights, heater and windshield wipers on. I have to do 180mi twice a week. Until then, I don't care.
- rizzo2008, on 12/12/2007, -1/+3They will only be feasible with a completely clean power grid, which until we get rid of coal plants is not possible. Kudos to GM for researching new electric cars though.
- schnikies79, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2I meant 180mi one way trip, twice a week, plus a 60mi/normal day commute.
- webgodjj, on 12/12/2007, -2/+4The electric car idea is not so bad if it's paired with a solar charging station (or even solar attached to the car). 200+ miles is really not needed. These types of cars would be great for 80% of the us consumer traffic, which is commuting in a city.
The idea of GM doing this makes me shiver however. Really if they go about things like they did with the EV1, things will go no where. My bet is on Toyota or Honda for this market. - HemlockUltimate, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2According to Consumer Reports the Corolla gets 29mpg and the Prius 44mpg. BUT you really ought to be comparing it to the Camry, the Corolla and Prius are in different classes. Finally, explain the Consumer Reports owner satisfaction rating of the Prius: 92 - better than all cars in all classes.
Its funny how you mis-typed Prius as pious... - Demarche, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Probably meant commuter, but I'm going to gripe anyway. I'm sick of being referred to as a "Consumer" just because I'm an average citizen. It's a stupid and degrading term that's overused and abused. Ok, I'm done.
- inactive, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2Anything is better than oil dependency.
- gtluke, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2?
the prius i nowhere near the size of the camry. the camry is now 2 inches shy of a ford crown victoria
the prius and corolla are about the same size. the prius started as the echo, the smallest car that toyota made.
and no, the 07 corolla is rated as 32/41, try google.
consumer reports also sackrides toyota like crazy. well up until this year when they put the tundra and camry on the DO NOT BUY list. - FortyCaliber, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Nuclear power grids is the first step to electric cars.
We need to model our power grid after France's. - div2n, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2That is because, as I understand it, the design of other "green" vehicles pretty much entailed designing the technology first and then throwing a shell with some seats over it. This is taking a more integrated approach of tech and design together so that what comes out is both pretty and green.
I think there are a few exceptions such as the hybrid Accord, Camry and a few others where they essentially figured out how to squeeze the technology into existing chassis.
But to build a brand new car with a brand new look with some revolutionary technology with both the design and engineering working in concert together is a _very_ good bet since many would-be buyers have shrugged off green (er) vehicles because they looked like they were designed to be ugly. - num3thod, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Dick head! Who said anything about believing it? Degenerate!
- knuckles, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2GM is the WORST alternative energy company out there. Just watch "Who Killed the Electric Car" and you'll understand how closely GM is in bed with big oil and govmt. Toyota thought GM was REALLY going to release an electric car so they made one as well which they ACTUALLY sell. GM destroyed their car and claimed no one wanted them. Now the Toyota Prius is the #1 seller while GM's stock is billions of dollars in the *****.
Too ***** late GM. You lost. - lunarvision, on 12/12/2007, -2/+3Excellent and 110% accurate point!
It's amazing how many people still fall for GM's hype machine. This is a company that made it's money on the backs of big trucks and cars with antiquated technology and design. It was less than a few years ago that Bob Lutz was writing off hybrid technology as a "fad".
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see an American car company take the high road and create well-designed and modern and sexy and fuel-efficient vehicles, but we've been fooled before... - GRANDPAMUNSTER, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1Exactly, GM replaced the EV1 with the hummer!!!
- DerangedPenguin, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Great that way they can develop cool new technologies, lease them out for a few years and then bury then in the desert before they become too popular. The EV1's were cool but alas try and find one now.
- HemlockUltimate, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1I think the 3rd gen Prius body style looks pretty sweet. (And I've gotten used to the 2nd gen.)
- gtluke, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1um, toyota only makes 5 cars
yaris new this year
corolla, corolla wagon = matrix
prius
camry, camry coupe = solara
avalon (whats the point of this car again?) - bobdotcom, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2yes, because the insight wasnt around a decade before the prius, and last i checked, thats....yep, thats a honda..
- carpespasm, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1which is where true hybrid cars come in. electric cars with a small gas/hydrogen/whatever engine to generate electricity and charge the batteries when they get too low. a much better idea than the current cars with dual transmissions and less efficiency.
- inactive, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2Agreed. When I think of Detroit, I think of a dark, cold, crime ridden metropolis that I have no desire or intention to ever visit. No wonder all GM are *****.
- inactive, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2PR stunt. GM has no intention of mass producing an all electric vehicle for the public. GM is out of touch with consumer and thinks selling gas guzzling Hummers are the future.
- sigepkazz37, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1So is Cali where Toyota came up with the hideous designs for the new Tundra and Camry? I wouldn't be caught dead in a car or truck as ugly as those two! Wake up it's not the 1980's anymore, GM makes quality cars and trucks.
- FortyCaliber, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1What about a bolt of darkening?
- cawpin, on 12/12/2007, -1/+1"My bet is on Toyota or Honda for this market."
Well, they steal everything else, so why not this. - cawpin, on 12/12/2007, -1/+1Are you being serious? I can only hope nobody is that stupid.
- Error601, on 12/12/2007, -2/+2If paired with a nuclear power station. Solar is ridiculously impractical at any scale.
- Ssullivan, on 12/12/2007, -1/+1wow what a display of pure ignorance.
- way2muchsense, on 12/12/2007, -4/+4GM is where alternative energy patents go to die. The only reason we have hybrid cars at all is because Toyota invented them first.
- num3thod, on 12/13/2007, -1/+1Read the ***** comment bitch! "ACCORDING TO..." Degenerate!
- Scira, on 12/12/2007, -2/+2I love GM's. They ban cheaters and help the environment.
- gtluke, on 12/12/2007, -7/+5it sells out because they don't make enough. they lose money on every car they sell so they don't make them to demand. they make it so everyone jumps on the toyota bandwagon.
the reason it sells well isn't because its great on gas, rated at 45mpg and the corolla rated at 41mpg
it sells because it LOOKS like a prius. thats why the honda hybrid failed so bad, you couldn't tell from down the block that your neighbor was a pompus fool who fails math and engineering and buys a hybrid
people buy the prius for the same reason others buy an H2, to show everyone "this is the kind of person i am, i like to play with tonka trucks(h2)/ i vote democrat(pious)" - Error601, on 12/12/2007, -5/+2Someone makes a movie full of BS and people just blindly believe it.
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