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Old 11-17-2010, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by SwampYankee View Post
They just don't scream "Look how green I am" as loudly as the Prius, though.
Ding, ding, ding, winner winner chicken dinner (as Jive Turkey would say).

That's exactly the reason quoted in a recent survey of hybrid owners. The Prius with it's unique recognizable shape has become a green "smug" status symbol. The Civic hybrid looks like, well, just another Civic.

On the note about the one Prius screaming thru a residential section at 60 mph - I've noticed the same thing, that disproportionately Prius drivers tend to be utter DB's. And whenever I notice one behind me at a stoplight, I also have a disproportionate tendency to do a WOT takeoff and blow a cloud of black soot all over their green car.
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