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I don’t know what we’re doing for our getaway car. Originally we were going to look into renting a Hummer and driving it ourselves (my favorite car - and besides who wouldn’t want to drive such an awesome armored tank for a night!) I had all these cute pictures in my head of FH behind the wheel and my veil blowing out the window behind us…

But then we booked our honeymoon, which we have to leave at 9 the next morning to get there. So now it seems silly to spend a couple hundred on a car that’s taking us 10 miles from the reception straight to our hotel. Now that we don’t have extra time to cruise around town afterwards, it’s not worth it. I really wish I knew someone with a Hummer that I could borrow because it would solve everything. I think I may just have our friends decorate my car since we’ll be driving it for 5 hours the next day to get to our port.

We’re driving away in FI’s truck. My sister and I have an obsession with a certain kind of truck (Ford Broncos). He came to pick me up in his on our first date, and I kept talking about how jealous my sister would be when she found out I was dating a guy with a Bronco.
After we’d been dating for a while, his relatives would all tease him that if he got sold the truck I’d break up with him.
He asked me to marry him in the truck too! So I think it’s only appropriate that we drive off in it… before it finally breaks down for good and he has to get something with better gas economy.

mary….i thought the point of a hybrid was to help our environment?

also, if miss apple is saving about 25 bucks a week on gas…multiplied by 52 weeks…multiplied by 6 years…she’s still saving a few thousand dollars. or she could just resell her car before the 5 year mark and not even have to deal with that cost.

good job miss apple! not my style of car, but it looks like it suits you and mr. apple very well.

We used my husband’s truck as our get-away car and it was perfect. It’s still fairly new and in good condition so it looked nice and he’s super attached to it. We have lots of great memories in that truck!

(Plus we felt like it would have been a waste of money to rent a car or limo for a 10 minute drive to our hotel.)

Great idea to keep it “green.” I found an “Environmental Luxury Car Service” in LA called evolimo. They are supposedly the only limo service in the country that has total fleet of vehicles powered by “clean, domestic alternatives to gasoline.”

Thanks for the pictures, I didn’t know the Prius was so high-tech inside!

Rhonda

we’re renting 2 white 2007 escalades. i couldn’t get myself to do the whole limo thing, and plus it costs less this way anyway.

I have read the article that you referred to and it is very disconcerting/disappointing to me that the plant that produces the nickel batteries for the Prius are doing such environmental damage. Given this fact, I think the intent of environmentally conscious consumers is still overwhelmingly positive. The more information we have as consumers to make informed choices, the better off we are. I applaud your objectivity in making me aware of this issue. As consumers and a long time buyer of Toyota vehicles (ie. I own a 1996 Toyota Camry with 154,000 miles on it… still runs great), I think that we should write to Toyota and demand that they at least put pressure on their nickel suppliers to clean up their act. I’m not an engineer so I’m not aware of any alternatives to using the nickel battery in hybrid vehicles. I was definitely not aware of this before I purchased the car. Had I known beforehand, it may have given me pause to purchase it. Perhaps the Honda Fit would have been a more “informed” choice for us? =(

Green technology is expensive and alot of consumers do get caught up in the media hype but I think it’s a start. We have to start somewhere… hybrids are a stop gap measure, they are not the solution to our dependance on foreign oil by any meausure… or our environmental problems and noone should claim that they are. Given all of the media attention regarding global warming, I think that Toyota’s intent to do good is there… it’s not perfect but it’s there and I applaud them for that. If I researched and calculated all of the environmental damage that occurred in China as a result of my buying any consumer products from Wal-Mart, I would probably be an environmentally conscious consumer racked with guilt and despair. I would live in a cave and not buy anything but that’s not reasonable or likely.

Having driven the Prius for 350 miles now, I do agree that the mpg is overstated by the EPA (I’m averaging about 45 mpg) but I think it is because I live in Dallas and I drive alot of highway miles. Perhaps I should leave earlier on my commutes to work so I can drive the backroads and get better fuel economy. Hmmmmmm.. something to think about. If you live in the city and do alot of stop and go driving, the fuel economy will be much better.

As for the energy requirements to build the Prius, I am not surprised that it costs more to build. Organic foods cost more to produce than a McDonald’s hamburger but which would you rather put in your body on a daily basis? Maybe I am a fool for buying into the hype… I did as much research as I could about the vehicle before I bought it. I hope to drive it for as long as my 1996 Camry. Time will tell. For me personally, it made sense at the time.

Let us not give up all hope that we can change the world for the better because it initially “costs more”. Trust me, I did hesitate to buy the Prius because I could have gotten a full sized 2007 Camry non hybrid for the same price. But in the end, I’m pretty happy with the vehicle and if it helps to influence the overall auto marketplace towards greener technology, reduce the consumption of foreign Middle Eastern oil so we no longer have to send our soldiers off to a warzone for the benefit of war profiteers, and convince American automakers that greener is profitable, I’m willing to pay the initial premium.