You may have heard of the challenge I put to you Travis Okulski Jalopnik. You probably read about the experience of brother Bark at NJMP this weekend. But if you do not have it, the story goes like this: A team of scrappy Midwesterners fought a bunch of Euro-weenies and high-net-worth individuals on average streets straight lines and curves of New Jersey. They endured fatigue, crippling load, and hair-raising 100 mph off-road excursions to challenge their inner demons and set.
This is not to their history.
This is the story of the Prius they led. More than 1,0 miles. From Ohio to New York to New Jersey to Philadelphia and back to Ohio.
Moreover fifteen laps on a race track.
stress and nervous tension are now serious social problems in all regions of the galaxy and it is for this should not be in any way exacerbated the following facts will now be disclosed in advance:
- I thought the Prius was absolutely fantastic, and I'll give you ten reasons.
- I also thought the Prius was depressing cheap and sadly outdated, and I'll give you five reasons why.
- My opinion about the Prius was changed forever.
- My opinion of most of Prius owners remains unchanged.
Okay, on to this. This is the TTAC 2015, so instead of tell a sordid story of a blonde bottle working girl named Natalya who stood beside me and said to his date, "I'm worth the money" as I watched Mike Stern, Anthony Jackson and Lionel Cordrew just kill to 55 bar in the village last Wednesday night, we're having a listicle.
Ten Reasons the 2015 Prius is absolutely brilliant. Number Six blow your mind.
1. Not tumblehome . Third generation Prius sides are actually concave . The side windows reach straight up from a surprisingly low doorsill a squared-off meeting with the roof. This car is extremely spacious and comfortable for me, more than any other car with its imprint on sale today, and that's why.
2. position of the reasonable driver. There is much room to get between the map of the door and the floating console. The empty space in front of you, where the dashboard would be, for example, a Ferrari F12berlinetta is gray plastic decorated with a pattern waveform "Synergy" which also appears in each glass divider in the lobby each mid-price hotel in America. And maybe it's because I had driven a '99 Camaro SS just before entering the Prius, but the distance to the base of the windshield was positively reasonable.
3. The vision thing. There are no "DLO Fail" as our own Sajeev Mehta say. The windows of front quarter panel are useful for parking. rear quarter windows have heaters on them. driver's vision is clear and almost clear. And dual rear window in the door - Holy fuck, man, when was the last time you drove a car that let you see the plate of the car license you follow? This is opposite to the face thing down-ass-up than most modern sedans. Love it.
4. Non invaded space. The Prius had room for three people, their luggage, their race equipment, and a carbon fiber jumbo Rainsong on which I played "Ramble On" after practice on Friday. "Jesus," my brother said, "make that judgment." The package simply works for people and luggage.
5. You can turn off the LOD. Each car in the world should offer this feature. Combined with the "EV" mode, which will be discussed shortly, making the world more night drive by vehicle ever. Room for a Bulgarian AK-47 clone in the back? Check! The ability to roll quiet? Check! No LOD to alert your rivals? Check!
6. The hybrid powertrain used in this car, is beyond reproach. From Columbus to Manhattan, the Prius returned about 51 mpg despite being asked to cruise at 80-0 mph. But he was on the way to Chinatown I had my own moment the road to Damascus. Exit the tunnel Holland, I pressed the "EV mode" button. The engine was not running until we arrived at the hotel and had to wait for the valet. No stories. No drama. Half an hour on the battery, stopping, starting, listening to Father John Misty on the crank-up. It would have been the value of two gallons of gas in anything else.
What Toyota did with the Prius is just great. You can watch the energy screens if you want, but you should not. Only once I am surprised by the Synergy Drive; make a left turn on a crowded four-way, I pumped the throttle to sneak into a hole between two cars and was unexpectedly slowed down by the decision of the Toyota off the engine. That's all. This was the only time I did not like the system in space of 1,0 miles. I'm a believer.
7. Calm aero . Certainly my current fleet of vehicles containing two Porsches, two Honda motorcycles and a car (Honda Accord) which was notorious for road noise since 1976, tends to damage my idea of what a car is silent . Again. The Prius has less wind noise than anything else I've ever driven. You can have a rational conversation at 0 mph.
8. manipulation. Yes, it is on low-roll Avids, not great. But when I took the Prius around golf Lightning New Jersey Motorsports Park, the Prius has been a competent and friendly partner. He can hit 96 mph on the right brow before recovering sixty hours-watt braking brand "4". You can rotate - wait, I laugh as I type - you can rotate at the entrance to turn on the recovery mode Synergy Drive of the brake pedal . No, it's not fast, but not rideable. More importantly, the Prius has completed his visit to the track with a firm brake pedal, no heat disturbing smell, and two battery bars left in reserve. Hey, he got two controversial F1 technologies: a CVT (hey, Williams) and the recovery of energy from the battery (! Hey, every F1 team during the KERS development except Williams) The only caveat: stability control not as high G maneuvers at highway speeds.
9. air conditioning. Oh what a feeling , to sit in the Prius on a hot day in Jersey and just let the battery run the A / C for you while the engine is sleeping. car without guilt at its best.
10. The stereo. Best Cheap Car stereo I heard in awhile. The dynamics of this will not cause my friends Stereophile pen enthusiastic tributes but at least it is strong enough for a man of 43 years who was deafened by years of club runners unmuffled and Benelli rifles used indoors.
After six days with the Prius, I was ready to buy one without question. Keep in mind that only the existence of my personal fleet would do such acceptable idea; I am about as likely to buy a Chinese-made dress shirt as I am to make a car that can not break 100 in the quarter my only vehicle. Yet for ninety-five percent of driving I do, the Prius is more logical than anything else on the road. And believe me, after blasting at the head of a pack of forty-one vehicle while Bimmers behind you hit them hard enough wings to make you feel in your chest, entering a car that "turns on" with a beep curiously. comforting
Of course, the Prius has problems, and here are five of them:
1. The dashboard is garbage . Forget the fact that it is in the center. The screens themselves are a strange mixture LCD monochrome cheap and monochrome LCD segment and backlit icons as you can find a God-damned '79 Tercel. Every time you look at the screen, you are reminded how they found the money to the Toyota Synergy Drive in a car of $ 24,000. No Ford Tempo did after watching this inside cheap.
2. The rest of the car is cheap, too . You can load these things, but my rental-spec "Prius One" lacked basic features such as a three turn signal flashing. It is equipped as a base Accent despite costs half again as much. There is no reason for it other than pushing you to upscale the five trim levels above. It is stupid in the operation and best practice GM.
3. It also treats you like an idiot Yes, we all know the kind of people who buy these things in bulk :. Inept, Whole-Foods-Shopping asexual mouth-breathing that treat the government as a surrogate parent and use phrases like "I do not agree with that" and "That's why this is a problem." One day it will be legal to cut people down as a Dothraki horse, but in the meantime they must be pampered by a car BIPS INSIDE WHEN you back. I know I backup, dammit! I also do not need the car to flash some extra tacky-ass display every time I touch the Volume button. I know I hit the volume button, because I am a human operation. What's worse :. The "you-touch-a-button" lights up when you touch the button, but you must press the more for him to do anything
4. The seats are pretty miserable . Front and rear. They are oddly shaped and fur mouse. Toyota knows how to make a great seat - the Lexus RC F is presented to our race proves. They do not just give you one here.
5. It is really slow. Yes, I know it's part of the package. But I hate it. I do not see why there is not a maximum discharge KERS fashion style when you really want to get this place cleared the way next to you.
There you go.
a thousand miles in a Prius will make you a believer as long as you understand what it is. It is not a Swiss Army knife, it is not a Hellcat, it is not a Tesla Model S. It is the basic transport smarter executed from the Model T. As such, it lacks both the surprise and pleasure. If you do not like it, get a V6 Accord.
The Prius is not great because it's a hybrid. Basically, hybrids suck and it does not matter if you refer to the Highlander Hybrid and the Panamera Hybrid. The hybrid concept only works when you apply it to the Prius, the same way that a dual-clutch transmission is magical circuit in a McLaren 650S but quite miserable in your Fiesta commuting. The Prius is not great because it's a hybrid. It is great because it is designed for one purpose - efficient transport - and the HS-Drive is a part of this design. A Prius without battery would be a better suburb of Elantra with. But as one unified system, the standard Prius is flat fucking wonderful.
If I did not feel dirty after the lead, as I was caught reading a Jezebel article The Top Ten Ways Men are You Stare At The Gym-Raping or something. I think I can arrange that. If you will excuse me, I have a superbike that needs wheely-ing remarkable.
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