GTP Cool Wall: 2003-2009 Toyota Prius

[niky]

It's a car that doesn't corner like a champ, doesn't accelerate like a champ, is cheap to run and has a working radio.

The only good point being it sounds better than a similarly banged-up four-banger.

I'm still surprised you are sacrificing outright performance and driving enjoyment to live within your means, given how you berate people who are doing the exact same thing.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Another strange contradiction from the search: I found a 500hp coupe utility (can't remember if it was an El Camino or Ranchero) within budget, but it was the interior that made it a no-sell. I'm sorry, but even I have my standards, and dog barf yellow velour (or at least that's what it looked like in the grainy photo, as I recall... might have been brown and another material though) is well below them.

This is the problem with "enthusiasts" on this site; they care more about the interior of a car than the roaring engine under the hood. They'll come up with some excuse, like it's out of their budget or the interior is just too ugly, but someone who really cares about performance wouldn't make these compromises.

(Am I doing it right?)

Like I said, I like the way it drives and its imperfections don't cause me much of a problem.

Why is this an acceptable answer only when you say it?

It does indeed have a litany of faults, but it feels a lot faster than it is, and when you're inside one, the sound when accelerating is worth turning off the radio to hear.

Ignorance is bliss; you wouldn't think that if you'd ever ride in anything else that wasn't some 25 year old junk heap. I've been in an equivalent model Cavalier; it sounds like a particularly grumpy tractor.

 

[Azure Flare]

Really, I'm not sure what I expected, but seriously, even among hybrids this car is desperately uncool. It might actually be the least cool car ever built. The sheer misguided, misinformed environmentalism imbued in the very sheetmetal of this car makes it more Seriously Uncool than any GM brain fart (Cimarron, Aztek, Sunbird) could ever hope to be.

FTFY.

 

[White & Nerdy]

This is the problem with "enthusiasts" on this site; they care more about the interior of a car than the roaring engine under the hood. They'll come up with some excuse, like it's out of their budget or the interior is just too ugly, but someone who really cares about performance wouldn't make these compromises.

(Am I doing it right?)

I was a bit of an idiot for just passing it over, since I ended up running out of gas money before finding a job anyway, but remember the first rule of Craigslist: "If there's any doubt, there is no doubt." At least hawkeye knew what was wrong with that Bimmer. The only obvious thing wrong with that car was the price, which was about half what you'd expect, and in those situations it's probably best to assume TANSTAAFL is in full effect.

As for budgets, that's exactly what I'm trying to argue. You don't have to go out of your budget. Maybe the insurers really are incredibly greedy in Canada, I don't know.

Why is this an acceptable answer only when you say it?

Because a lot of people on this site are approaching from the exact opposite direction. When they say they like how it drives, they mean they never hear the engine or feel any bumps. They like how it drives, but they wouldn't make up and excuse to go somewhere just to drive it, because they can be even more comfortable just sitting at home.

Also, there are the people who do care how a car drives, but won't get to that part unless the engine is properly sophisticated, the ride is comfortable, and everything fits together perfectly, so it ends up being the same thing.

Ignorance is bliss; you wouldn't think that if you'd ever ride in anything else that wasn't some 25 year old junk heap. I've been in an equivalent model Cavalier; it sounds like a particularly grumpy tractor.

At very low RPMs, it does to some degree. It then transitions to something approximating the "accelerating V8" sound effect that's been dubbed into every police chase video ever. Around 3000 RPM, it begins sounding pretty much like any other V6 until about 5000 RPM, when it again changes noticeably to something a lot less appealing, telling you that you should upshift soon.

 

[homeforsummer]

Because a lot of people on this site are approaching from the exact opposite direction. When they say they like how it drives, they mean they never hear the engine or feel any bumps. They like how it drives, but they wouldn't make up and excuse to go somewhere just to drive it, because they can be even more comfortable just sitting at home.

Also, there are the people who do care how a car drives, but won't get to that part unless the engine is properly sophisticated, the ride is comfortable, and everything fits together perfectly, so it ends up being the same thing.

And once again, you completely ignore that some of the people who say they like the relaxing way in which the Prius drives also like performance cars, classics, muscle cars, race cars and various other "proper" cars. And indeed, many of these people have actually driven such cars so are vastly better placed than you to sing their praises.

But no, you'd rather continue spewing irrelevant, ill-informed, ignorant, tired, dull, pointless, dim-witted slurry onto the internet rather than pulling your head out of your arse and acknowledging such facts.

 

[KinLM]

I've said it many times now and I'm getting tired of saying it.

We all don't need a fast car to enjoy driving. I'm a huge car fan and I drive a 1997 Camry. I like how it drives because it IS quiet and rides smoothly and has reasonably good gas mileage.

It ALSO doesn't weigh 10 tons so despite the soft suspension it still actually handles quite well. It has nearly 200 HP, so despite being quiet it's still definitely fast enough.

And thanks to its V6 it's got a better sound than some I4 when you really want a car sound and not just a quiet ride.

It's not perfect either. Ignorant people say that it's dull and that anybody who drives one isn't a true car enthusiast (wonder who that could be!)

But I'm willing to put up with the fact that it isn't the most exciting, best handling, fastest, most luxurious, smoothest, quietest (or loudest) because it works and it will take me almost anywhere I want to go.

Because I drive something like this does NOT make me a non-car enthusiast. I drive something cheap like this because when I get out of college, I'd like to buy something like a BRZ. So to save up the money I need something cheap and reliable until then.

I'm getting extremely tired reading how perfect your Sunburd is. If you weren't so damn conceited about it and you weren't so damn ignorant as to the fact that even $1,000,000 cars are never perfect, and if you didn't keep telling other people that their car is so much worse than yours, people wouldn't give you hell for your car. Maybe you'd realize what 10 year members and mods as well as myself are trying to tell you.

Obviously we've all failed judging by the fact that the last few pages on here are of you still talking about your Sunbird and people still arguing against you. But maybe one day you'll learn that everybody's priorities are different and that just because they don't want a 25 year old gas guzzler so they can make Prius drivers feel inferior by revving the engine next to them doesn't make them any less of an enthusiast.