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Originally Posted by JohnnyGrey
The way I read it, it seemed like you'd rather see a celebrity (one person) in a Prius than a full (7-8 people in a) minivan. I thought we were talking about actual efficiency rather than using star power to get a point across. How many people bought a Prius because Larry David drives one?
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You can read it however you want
It's not really changing anything.... Here's the key points to take away from it:
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I rarely see minivans or Prii with high occupancy anyway
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Apples to apples, a fully loaded Prius (5) has a greater mpg per capita than a fully loaded minivan (7 - even 8).
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What it should have seemed like is... I'd rather see the one person (even two) driving a Prius than one (or two) in a minivan... Because that's the reality of what's going on
Hell, I even had a directly applicable corollary a few lines above
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If some ass is going to do 20 over - I'd rather it happen in a Prius than in my car or just about any other car... My car just doesn't perform as well at that speed - I can't compete with that aero. Sure, they should slow down - if they were, you wouldn't have this gripe
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And it's not one celebrity person - it's
the celebrity. In a consumer whorish world - 10 seconds of time on whatever TV broadcast is freaking awesome from a promotional standpoint. I'm willing to bet more people have heard about a Prius than a
Ford GT...