While out and about today, I saw this....

[FlorahDorah 987]

[wvumtnbkr 4,583]

The other team captain on my 2 car team drives a prius.... @bbaker480.....

[JBgotM 1,144]

A Prius at my work has the same sticker.

[mender 6,853]

When we were driving south to Laguna from Portland we noticed a large number of Prii and starting counting. In the six hours that we kept count, we saw just under 400 of them, by far the most common car that we saw. That's an average of more than one a minute.

 

It was funny seeing little convoys of Prii; safety in numbers I guess!

[FlorahDorah 987]

Feel free to post up your own 'out and about' photos! Funny stuff, cool stuff, weird stuff.. as, you know, per forum guidelines. 

[mender 6,853]

Not mine but ...

[mender 6,853]

This one I took at our local bank ...

Edited September 1, 2018 by mender

[Racer28173 1,398]

[Racer28173 1,398]

Forgot to caption it.  Saw this in CA.  Assume it is a play on BABY ON BOARD, but I could be wrong.  

[Team Infiniti 13,868]

 

Edited September 1, 2018 by Team Infiniti

[pintodave 4,231]

11 minutes ago, Racer28173 said:

Forgot to caption it.  Saw this in CA.  Assume it is a play on BABY ON BOARD, but I could be wrong.  

 

Or maybe she is still prego??

[FlorahDorah 987]

1 hour ago, Team Infiniti said:

 

 

There I fixt it. 

[bbaker480 156]

On 8/30/2018 at 8:43 PM, wvumtnbkr said:

The other team captain on my 2 car team drives a prius.... @bbaker480.....

It's not an awful car if you don't expect to enjoy driving that day.  I don't like the seats, the steering wheel, the transmission, the stereo, or the abysimal traction control system that can't be turned off, but other than those I don't really want to kill it with fire.  As a place to sit and listen to an audiobook for 2 hours a day driving to and from the office I could imagine worse places to be (like in a catless WRX with no A/C and manual).  

[FlorahDorah 987]

19 minutes ago, bbaker480 said:

It's not an awful car if you don't expect to enjoy driving that day.  

 

QFT

[bbaker480 156]

1 hour ago, FlorahDorah said:

 

QFT

It's not that the Prius can't be hustled, its just not confidence inspiring, or if you exceed the limits of traction under braking it completely cuts power to the car and does all kinds of what I still find to be unpredictable things under the guise of "traction control".  Think about a normal car crossing a wet manhole cover, tire slips 3' and then grips again. Same manhole cover you've got another 80 feet of blinking lights and cut power to the wheels on top of what feels like the computer checking each brake independently to make sure it works.  That said, ABS under a full panic stop does work very well given the contact patch of its tiny tires.  

 

The traction control is awful enough that I hesitate to sell the WRX because I don't know how driveable the Prius actually will be in the winter.  At least with that car the loss of grip is intentional and controllable if you decide less loud pedal is in order.

[JBgotM 1,144]

...so i am cruising down the autobahn today in a Volvo S90 rental and fly by a Lada. It made me smile. 

 

 

[Ron_e 4,680]

Walking in to Walmart there were signs out front stating:

 

Shop online: FREE PICKUP!   

 

Marketing idiots, gullible public.  It damnwell better be free.  

[Team Infiniti 13,868]

7 minutes ago, Ron_e said:

Walmart

That place is strictly for MY convenience/ biannual emergency where I need something quickly @ a odd hour.

Edited September 7, 2018 by Team Infiniti

[FlorahDorah 987]

Hard to miss...