Why I Hate The Toyota Prius.
Quick disclaimer: I have started watching the BBC show Top Gear. Therefore, I have started actually noticing cars and what they look like. I also have been thinking about the cars within our family and why I like and dislike each of them.
On one of the episodes of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson reviews the Toyota Prius, his main critique being that it’s not as “eco-friendly” as everyone says it is, and that fuel economy has more to do with driving style than the actual car itself. While that in itself is good to know (and completely irrelevant to me), I have my own personal beef with the car.
Take a look at it, and see if you can spot my issue:
If you have an eagle-eye (as I do), you will have spotted it right away. It’s a major design flaw that makes me wonder why anyone in their right mind would buy this car, given that they had test-driven it first.
See that little rear spoiler?
It cuts straight across the back windscreen.
Essentially what Toyota has done is halved the rear visibility. And while it may not be that noticeable from the back of the car, if you look at it from the front there is no mistaking that massive error. I tried to find a picture to demonstrate my point but I can’t find any, mostly because I’m too lazy and also because pictures of that don’t exist. The spoiler isn’t so large that it would block small vehicles approaching from behind, but I think it would be extremely annoying to look in your rear view mirror and see a line across your window. Kind of like how obvious bifocal lines drive me absolutely crazy when they cut across someone’s eyes and why my glasses are line-less bifocals (yes, I wear bifocals. I also have a bad hip and occasionally drive a Mercury Grand Marquis. I am essentially a 90-year-old woman).
I don’t care about the speed capabilities of the Prius, and I really don’t care about how “green” it is. The person who designed is probably very nice and likes to cuddle with baby seals or some other innocent creature. I don’t even think that person is necessarily the one to completely blame for that stupid spoiler.
I think that if you know someone who drives a Prius, you should publicly ridicule them for buying a car that is so poorly designed. And while you’re at it, burn their shoes, because they’re probably wearing Crocs.
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