A Porsche Driver's Nightmare
04-07-2015, 10:21 AM
#32
I get about 40-45mpg.....With a lease payment of $190 a month and $20 fill ups, it fits the bill for a cheap commuter. I end up only filling up twice a month. In rush hour traffic it doesn't really matter anyway.
Make no mistake though, there really is no substitute....LOL
04-07-2015, 10:57 AM
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(Except Honda Odysseys & Subaru Foresters possibly)
That's not so much a nightmare. However when a Porsche 911, with nice headers, x-pipe, and FD Motorsport cans, rounds the bend... (top down, smile on, right foot feeling slightly heavy) sees two lanes that merge down to one as you join the ramp, there is a moment of anticipation.
The "nightmare" part of this event was that there were two Prius in each lane, and that the world (unfairly) conspired to allow both lanes containing said Prius -to merge directly in front of the beloved Porsche, mid-growl (as it were).
A Porsche Driver's Nightmare.
Hahaha
04-07-2015, 02:11 PM
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For some reason, I see very few Prii down here in Miami, but the drivers are all essentially fit for Prii type cars. I think I get merged on at least twice a week and the fastest lane is usually the right lane... Being from up North, I can still relate to your Prius pains.
04-07-2015, 02:36 PM
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On the positive side of these slow cars... I was on a drive last Saturday morning. I had just come down from a fairly fast drive in the hills and was getting on the freeway (280 southbound at Woodside Rd for those in the bay area). I had to slow down on the onramp due to the 3 or 4 econo-boxes merging at 55 mph. As it turns out a CHP was going about 80 in the fast lane just as I merged into traffic. He pulled someone over in a honda about 1/2 mile later. Had I merged onto the freeway in my usual manner there, I most likely would have been his next donor to the general fund. It worked out for the best and nobody was slowing me down in the hills where it's more fun.
04-07-2015, 08:48 PM
#38
Have you driven these cars? Can't blame them.
I had a Prius for loaner
when I brought in my 997 for service. The ECU just wouldn't open the throttle to make the car go fast. Anything short of pedal to the floor made me want to punch the car.
Frankly, those Prius going 80mph on the freeway are the ones that surprise me. How do they make the car go? Maybe they do floor the throttle all the time.
I had a Prius for loaner
when I brought in my 997 for service. The ECU just wouldn't open the throttle to make the car go fast. Anything short of pedal to the floor made me want to punch the car.Frankly, those Prius going 80mph on the freeway are the ones that surprise me. How do they make the car go? Maybe they do floor the throttle all the time.
04-08-2015, 09:09 AM
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04-10-2015, 12:10 PM
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$1,000. 30 MPG in stop and go traffic. 34-38 MPG on the highway.
Less damaging to the environment, bigger, more comfortable, and WAY better built than a smugmobile Prius.
Less damaging to the environment, bigger, more comfortable, and WAY better built than a smugmobile Prius.
04-10-2015, 12:31 PM
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04-10-2015, 12:40 PM
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It is a diesel. Loud and smoky OM606.910. The 2JZ-GE of the diesel world!
It's a 1995 E300 Diesel, bought off an NIU student who couldn't stand how slow it was, so he "upgraded" to a Grand Marquis. She's got 353,567 miles and counting, and she started right up when it was -23*f out this winter.
I have a set of Lorinser sport shocks, H&R lowering springs, a full bushing and balljoint kit, and R129 SL600 332mm rotors, 4 piston Brembo calipers and refurbished AMG Monoblocs off an '01 W220 S600 waiting to go on this summer. My fiancee drives it most of the time.
It's a 1995 E300 Diesel, bought off an NIU student who couldn't stand how slow it was, so he "upgraded" to a Grand Marquis. She's got 353,567 miles and counting, and she started right up when it was -23*f out this winter.
I have a set of Lorinser sport shocks, H&R lowering springs, a full bushing and balljoint kit, and R129 SL600 332mm rotors, 4 piston Brembo calipers and refurbished AMG Monoblocs off an '01 W220 S600 waiting to go on this summer. My fiancee drives it most of the time.
04-10-2015, 04:51 PM
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Of the Prius, all of the Prius drivers I've seen drive their cars highly inefficiently - flogging them down the road at max acceleration. I'd bet they get < 20 mpg on those things.
That and they endanger everyone as the idiot (often south-east asian woman in the Seattle area) by driving their cars past dusk and in the dark with no headlights and tail-lights on, because of the always illuminated dash, they are to stupid to remember to turn on the exterior lights when its dark.
04-10-2015, 06:45 PM
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To be fair its probably some idiot in a Toyota Avalon or Camry driving slow at the front that is causing the backup.
Of the Prius, all of the Prius drivers I've seen drive their cars highly inefficiently - flogging them down the road at max acceleration. I'd bet they get < 20 mpg on those things.
That and they endanger everyone as the idiot (often south-east asian woman in the Seattle area) by driving their cars past dusk and in the dark with no headlights and tail-lights on, because of the always illuminated dash, they are to stupid to remember to turn on the exterior lights when its dark.
Of the Prius, all of the Prius drivers I've seen drive their cars highly inefficiently - flogging them down the road at max acceleration. I'd bet they get < 20 mpg on those things.
That and they endanger everyone as the idiot (often south-east asian woman in the Seattle area) by driving their cars past dusk and in the dark with no headlights and tail-lights on, because of the always illuminated dash, they are to stupid to remember to turn on the exterior lights when its dark.