what an amazing photo, documenting the insanity of those 80s WRC Group B events; where people were literally inches and feet away from the most amazing rally cars driving full-on through the crowds. Everyone was brave; the drivers and the fans. This is from the 1984 Portugal Rally.
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I’m really hoping some of you reach this blog, while researching information about the Toyota Prius. If you were googling for reliability, pricing, consumer reviews, problems, troubleshooting, whatever.
Let’s start by stating the obvious; the Toyota Prius is a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE car. It is SLOW, it is severely UGLY, it handles like feces, and it quite simply lacks any character. The car is all hype, and for the several thousands upon thousands of minions who were too dim to actually bother trying to find a proper car and instead ended up with a Prius; think about what this car says about you.
Why bother dressing in a suit to go to work in a Prius? You’ve already told the world you don’t give a crap what you look like; which is exactly why you’ve rolled into the work parking lot driving a misproportioned wedge.
You wanted economy……OHHHHHHH. So why have you not picked up a hugely efficient new Diesel which runs clean without spilling Nickel into the environment like the cancerous Prius seems to do. Audi, VW, and BMW are all making solid diesel cars at the moment. You can’t afford an Audi or BMW? Fine…..then drive over to the VW dealership and get a Rabbit (Golf in 2010) or Jetta TDI. You’ll pull a solid 40-50mpg everywhere you go—and it won’t take you 15 years to get to 60mph. More than that though, your friends will like you a little bit more, and the grass on your lawn will STILL be growing greener than ever.
Saving a few $$$ is not worth making an ass out of yourself. The truth of the matter is; people hate seeing a Toyota Prius in front of them on the freeway, or getting stuck behind one in the city is generally worse than getting stuck behind a bus. Occasionally, you’ll see a minion of a human driving a Prius really really really fast (which is generally 40-50mph….fast for a Prion…err..Prius) and doing all sorts of weird maneuvers trying to draw attention to their strange little car. Sometimes I wonder if these people think they are driving a Toyota Racing Development (TRD) tuned sports car? Do they KNOW how slow and underperforming of a car they are actually driving?
You are NOT making the world a better place by buying a Prius. You’re just making yourself look like a twit.
If I had extra money lying around, I would buy a Prius—-to have it junked and crushed for kicks!
I loved Saabs growing up….I always used to wish my parents would buy one. Eventually my mum bought a 1999 Saab 9-3 with my pushing, however overall it was a dissappointing car. By that time, Saab had already disintegrated into a puddle of poo laid by General Motors.
How can a company, which built the utterly charming, classic, and timeless original Saab 900s of the 70s and 80s LOSE THE PLOT like Saab has? Was it puretly GM screwing it all up? Or did Saab, as a company, just give up! I’m not sure of the truth, but I am sure that this company has all but gone down the tubes completely.
There is one solution, in my opinion. Saab needs to get back to their roots. Abandon all this 9-3, 9-5 crap….and start focusing on the 900 line of cars again. BRING BACK THE SAAB 900, YOU FOOLS!!!
If i had the money, i would buy this infected company, fire all the useless designers who keep believing that the rubbish 9-5 design is great and should be ‘tweaked’ every 2 years to try and reinvent the car—–and come up with a young, fresh, design team who loved the old 900 growing up…..and GO RETRO. Yeah, i know lots of people hate that word; “retro”, but in a case like this—-the 900 should have been to Saab what the 911 was to Porsche. It should have become an evolving design with evolving performance.
Shame on you, Saab—-for screwing it all up. I AM ALSO LOOKING AT YOU, Volvo!
Here’s a rendering i found online, not exactly what i’m thinking of—-but a good start!
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