Film crew seeks heavily modded car in/around GA, USA. Friday. Will pay for your time
 

Received this today, and time is of the essense:

If you're interested, his email address is his first & last name with middle initial "M" between them @ Yahoo.com.

Or reply in this thread or PM me and I'll send you his phone number.

I contacted them and their 2013 Prius will be doing a shoot out with the Aerocivic on Friday.

Nice! As soon as I saw this, my first thought was literally the aerocivic.

Be sure to post it here when it's done.

I don't suppose an 04 Civic with pipe insulation stuffed in the grill for a grill block and overinflated tires counts as "Heavily Modified"

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instanc...x/30812532.jpg

Mike - most excellent!

If anyone can represent the ecomodding ethos, it's Mr. Aerocivic.

I'm really looking forward to this film.

I had PMed basjoos about this. Glad to see that he is trying to take them up on the offer.

Don't expect to see too much about the aerocivic,. If its like the other videos that they have made for Autotrader (comparing a Toyota Tundra to a purpose-built off roader), it will mostly about the features of the 2013 Prius with just a short mention of the unconventional vehicle.

Go represent aero civic team! congrats!!!
Just advertise on back end like I do with original mpg and last fill with economodder.com at the bottom.
I wish I had a more efficient vehicle to mod but the Sephia gets 2mpg avg better than est. hwy mpg. with 70 % hiway travel, I believe the original mpg would have been near 27. Im knocking down 31 to 34.5 depending upon winds.
I hope I see the program.. should show up on thier online also??

Got 72mpg on both legs for the 92 miles between Abbeville, SC and Winder, GA and burned 2.5 gallons of E0. They were impressed with the car and said there would be about 1 minute about it in the 2013 Prius video to show a car even more extreme aero than the Prius. Should be released in about 4 weeks.

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8wbYJ6suPU

Hang the damn bikes off the rear of the car! *grinds teeth*

Ha - I thought the same thing, except: they would have fit IN the car if he'd folded down the back seat. :D

In the video, they were advertising the bike rack as well as the Prius. Notice that in the video they only mentioned the EPA mileage, not the actual mileage they were getting while they were driving. While talking with them, they mentioned that the drag of the bike rack was really killing their mileage and I mentioned that a rear bumper bike rack would be much lower drag.

Autotrader should change the name of those videos from Totally Tested to Totally Advertised :)

That poor Prius didn't stand a chance! :)

That wasnt the prius that started it all, thats like the 4 or 5th version. Second it was 420am according to the clock, up early arent they? 3rd, the child needed to be in the rear according to everything we know about vehicles with air bags and depending on the state he may of been required to use a child seat. Yes, small children are required to use one seat in the back, babies are required to use another and ride backwards in the rear seating section. :eek:

Even though it looked like a prius commercial, not sure why they threw in the eco modder unless they wanted to further enforce how great a new car is over a old civic.:eek:

basically it, read through the videos comments people are basically saying
-junk Honda:mad:
-kid should be in the back
-Prius shouldn't have a sport badge