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Old 09-23-2009, 01:06 AM   #7 (permalink)
Allch Chcar
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Nitpicking. There's nothing wrong with a button for better acceleration either. The Prius still uses a very underpowered engine for a car of it's size. You don't see many with outputs in that range for a midsize devoid of a v6. Increasing the engine was a bad idea IMHO, now it's ever closer to competing with the Camry. I suppose that's the least of their concerns, if the Prius could replace the Camry it might actually work out better overall.

RobertSmalls, I see your statement on moms favoring v6s for the power but refusing to rev the engine (or even drive a manual). But just think of Prius as a Japanese word that neither needs to be spelt plural nor should be. It doesn't matter if they got it from Latin as a word that means to precede and therefore should be spelt Prii for plural. The more you fret over it the worse you'll be for it.
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