Saw a Prius with a class 3 trailer hitch today...
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People are often quick to dismiss the prius.
Most people that buy a prius want a fuel efficient car not a sports car. However, the prius is a gas burning automobile with one main distinction. It's optimized to save gas by means of its lightness and its hybrid drive (gas and electric) and economy mode acceleration curve.
Floor the Prius or turn
off economy and it skips as fast as another 4 cylinder gas burner out there and it does it at a better efficiency than most cars out there, even at 100 mph it consumes less gas than most at the same speed.
I've pushed my 2013 just short of 100 on occasion and did not strain to do it.
It's a modern car, most cars can do it with out issue, up hill.
I've travels coast to coast (round trip) for $320! Show me how many other cars do that
Most people that buy a prius want a fuel efficient car not a sports car. However, the prius is a gas burning automobile with one main distinction. It's optimized to save gas by means of its lightness and its hybrid drive (gas and electric) and economy mode acceleration curve.
Floor the Prius or turn
off economy and it skips as fast as another 4 cylinder gas burner out there and it does it at a better efficiency than most cars out there, even at 100 mph it consumes less gas than most at the same speed.
I've pushed my 2013 just short of 100 on occasion and did not strain to do it.
It's a modern car, most cars can do it with out issue, up hill.
I've travels coast to coast (round trip) for $320! Show me how many other cars do that
#32
Topgear compared a Prius to an E90 M3 on their test track, and the M3 got better gas mileage for the same lap time.
Parlor trick, but funny.
Parlor trick, but funny.
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Saw this over at leftlaneprius Prius NOS System In all fairness, one could rename that page leftlanecampers as being a left lane douchenozzle is certainly not limited to Priui. -Mike
And I refer to them as the Anti Destination League...
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Is the Prius even "allowed" (per owners manual) to tow? Spouse's Lexus-bodied Prius equivalent says no hitches, not even for just a bike rack. I understand not everyone RTFM
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Since this thread is alive again, and since this is both Porsche- and towing-relevant:
https://www.trackjunkies.org/topic/4...ter-lifestyle/
https://www.trackjunkies.org/topic/4...ter-lifestyle/
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And one can always do an engine sway.
https://myclassicgarage.com/social/p...-prius-rwd-ls1
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I'll give this owner a pass. You have to give him/her credit for that creative and low-cost solution to a hurdle standing between driver and track fun.
This reminds me. My wife told me last week "Why don't you take that Porsche to Lowes and get me 10 bags of mulch?" She had told me to get a Dodge Ram truck before I bought the 911. Women can be cruel!