I hate Prius drivers. I hate them for two reasons:
- Prius drivers are bad drivers. They seem to fall into two categories:
- The malnourished vegans whose underdeveloped myelin sheaths aren’t keeping the signals in the proper axons. These free thinkers drive against convention down one-way streets. Their goldfish memory keeps them constantly surprised by pedestrian obstacles.
- The technologically-fascinated compulsives who obsessively drive 40MPH in the carpool lane to achieve a best score on that nifty “high MPG” game installed in the dash. With cell phones glued to their heads, they re-up by regenerative braking a half-mile before a green light because they know it will be red by the time they get there.
- Prius drivers are smug. They’re not BMW smug though. I can tolerate BMW smug. BMW drivers have that “I have so much money that my penis must be larger than yours” smugness. That’s actually cute. Prius drivers, on the other hand, have that “I saved the world today by buying a hybrid and you didn’t so you’re going to have to tolerate the fact that I’m a bad driver and you go sit in the corner while I molest little children” smugness (remember…the myelin thing). It’s unwarranted and creepy.
It is unfortunate that I hate Prius drivers for, as I’ve mentioned, I live in Palo Alto: Prius Capital of the World. Our homeless drive Priuses. Our homeless’ homeless dogs drive Priuses. You’d think we were Toyota’s Verplanck, New York.
I’ve decided to derive as much entertainment from the Prius Drivers Suck phenomenon as possible. Therefore, I vow to blog every damaged Prius I can find. Let’s start with this one:
Almost the archetype, the only problem with this specimen is that the damage is limited to the rear. This may instill some doubt as to whether the Prius driver was at fault. Let me assure you that, without a doubt, this was incurred when the driver backed up in the carpool lane on highway 101 to see whether the MPG score could go negative.
Please note the prominent placement of the No Dubya sticker. Not that I’m a Bush fan, but it takes a Prius driver to really piss you off with a bumper sticker. “Nuke a gay whale for Christ” is less offensive. It’s not the sticker itself…it’s the fact that this driver, who you know has no real political insight, proudly displays an emblem of meaning meaninglessly. It’s like if a bubbly blonde trophy wife were to wear an Odyssey of the Mind T-shirt because she heard it was cool. Oh wait…no…that would be funny.
I know. I’m being arrogant. We all have our vices. Mine are arrogance and explosively crapping myself in public. That’s still better than driving a Prius.
and i just love to get my fords tail pipe next to a open prius window at a light or on the road and fill there car with diesel smoke ha ha ha it is so funny!
heh if you think passing them at a high rate of speed on the left shoulder is fun i like to cut them off while signaling (which these shitheads cant seem to figure out)in my ford ranger then just hit my windshield wipers and “wiper” them for oh about 3 miles before they figure out whats happening.
oh yeah i have a big .45 hand gun and several other highpower weapons for the bitch like you peter mandni that threatens my life. come and get me you faggot!
Oh man I hate these people who drive priuses. Get this, I’m driving down 805 in San Diego, I’m driving my 1970 Mustang Mach 1. This Prius just had the urge to speed in front of me at 80mph, and then he stayed at 55mph. This is at what? 2am in the morning? Anyway I speed up to him. Get this, my friend yells at these hippies if they want to race. I don’t know what they said but they tried to speed off and we dusted these guys. I shifted it into 3rd, then 4th, I got this thing up to 115mph! And I havn’t done that since fucking 1986 when I did drag racing with this. That was kick ass. I don’t like the people but boy are they fun to fuck with!
There are tons of these cars in SF and the people driving them are the biggest assholes you’ll ever meet on the road. Everyone in SF drives like a nut, you have to just to get around as the streets are so congested, but Prius drivers will run you off the road just to be the first one at the stop light. Fortunately, riding a motorcycle allows me to get around these douchebags any time I need to. People who drive smart cars are also pretty bad too (those super compact two seaters), just as bad as Prius drivers.
You’re absolutely correct. I don’t know where Prius drivers get off being so smug. There was a south park episode that every hybrid driver should watch. Good stuff.
I notice them speeding all the time where I live in NorCal. Very angry people usually. They’ll stare at me in my truck and shake their heads. It’s so funny. I can just feel the stress pumping through their veins.
If you have a Prius, cool. Just don’t be an ass about it and mind your own business when it comes to other peoples cars…
I was in my Dakota a couple years ago and came up on a powder blue Pirus. ok no big deal. . .I’m thinking “OK some environmental weenie” Then i read his bumper sticker. “eating meat is murder” That tore it! I was so enraged!!!! I pulled up to the Prius at the net red light motioned for the very thin guy who btw had dark bags under his eyes to roll down his window motioning toward his rear . . .I yelled, as the light changed” You’re gonna die of Anemia!” then drove away. I Really HATE VEGAN PRIUS DRIVERS! with their holier than thou attitudes.
That is awesome. I have been waiting so long for something like this, and this is worded perfectly! Thank you for doing the world a service. These cars are so ugly, and their drivers have bigger egos than drivers of lifted trucks and dude-bros in race-striped, plastic mustangs of the 21st century.
I should mention that… A mid 80s Honda CRX GETS BETTER MILEAGE THAN A PRIUS!(51/58) Wanna reduce fossil fuel dependency? Sell your prius, lose your world savior status, and risk looking like an Asian teenager that can’t smile! (I’m asian, so I can say that)
Can’t trade in the Prius.. oh… I guess the environment DOES NOT matter that much, after-all, does it?? Shocking.
I own a 2005 ford mustang (imported
) and I also own a 2004 toyota prius. I don’t understand why people in the US make this negative stereotype about prius drivers but of course maybe that’s because I live in Sydney,Australia and have only been to LA for business trips and I know nothing haha. I love LA by the way but never really observed the traffic too much (eyes on laptop screen during trips). In Sydney there are a fair amount of Prius’ but they drive normally (as opposed to what I have read about Prius drivers in LA).
I use my Prius for long range touring and travel to the city. I think its a great car and accommodates for my family very well. I don’t see the stereotype about Prius drivers here in Australia like it is in the USA although sometimes I get some people question me about how it works and I usually say “Its like a family sedan but saves you 60% of the fuel of your average sedan”. I drive a lot so the Prius saves me loads of money every year and is a great promo car.
My mustang however is my ultimate favourite. I love driving through the royal national park just south of sydney and its a beast to its own on the corners. I’m a huge motorhead and to tell you the truth (I don’t care if I’m flamed about this statement), I think the drivers are to blame, not the Prius itself. The Prius is by far one of the best family cars I have ever owned. My next purchase will be a 2009 prius or toyota camry hybrid.
I drive a Prius, but I’m usually not a prick about it. The only time I drive excessively slow is in my neighborhood if no one’s around. The only time I could be considered “prick-ish” is when I’m driving on E. Independence Avenue in Charlotte. When I come off the highway I have to make a left turn pretty soon, so I’m required to drive in the fast lane, but I’m not gonna go 60 in a 45 just because someone thinks their time is more important that me getting a ticket and possibly causing someone to lose their life. I don’t go faster than 7 over. Then someone has the nerve to get pissed at me because they’re doing something wrong. I also don’t judge other peoples’ cars, because I don’t have to pay for their gas. A friend of mine dislikes the Prius solely because “It doesn’t make noise. I’d buy 4 subwoofers just to make a car noise.” Yeah, my friend’s an idiot. I’d love to write more, but class is almost over (yes I’m only a high schooler.) I’ve never seen a Prius driver who’s a douchebag, even when riding in non-hybrid cars. They always drive the speed of the traffic, and aren’t smug. Maybe it’s just the East coast. They just have crazy fools like some of y’all (most of y’all are probably good people) doing 90 in a 65, then complaning.
Katon, most us “non-prius drivers” aren’t too concerned with MPG, (the sole purpose of the Prius) but rather the attitude Prius drivers have in their driving behaviors; They appear to be smug based on their driving habits. Maybe you don’t see it, but people in SoCal do. Every day. Like I said before, I don’t know how a person who drives something so ugly and small can be so critical against REAL VEHICLE drivers! I hope you know that when a raging Dodge Ram or 3500 Silverado slams into you, you really have no chance in survival, or that the money you save on gas is just gonna go to the replacement lithium battery. So, if we’re all going to spend about the same money to keep our vehicles running, why risk driving a small, poor-protected, low-accerleration, ugly-looking car while doing it???!!?? Furthermore, it’s been proven that the gas needed to keep a ‘gas-guzzler’ running does nothing to the environment compared to the environmental impact used to build one Prius! In my opinion, the concept of the Prius is completely BACKWARDS of what we need to do for the environment. Also, If I was THAT concerned with the environment, I would ride public transportation LONG before I drive a Prius!
Spread the news, the Pruis is the WORST thing for the environment, regardless of your MPG game on your screen!!!
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I drive a Prius and yes I am a Vegan. I hypermile when I drive often getting 60 MPG or higher on my trips. I just love it when the big pickup truck drivers get pissed of because I drive under the speed limit. I just relax and smile while they speed up and try to cut me off. My blood pressure doesn’t go up and they are all angry. Your loss. World Peace!
OMG i cant believe i finally found a site with people who share my disdain for prius drivers! Yes i agree with all of you their attitudes suck, their road safety and driving etiquette is in the toilet. I don’t have to specify because all of you have said what i have to say about those powder blue, puke green colored turtles driving around. I can get almost 30MPG HWY on my Audi A4 2.0. which drives and handles like a dream, gets a 5 star crash safety rating from the NHTSA, and yes i am from and live in socal so i share your pain. FYI Prius’s with SKI RACKS piss me off even more because usually driving up to snow summit or mammoth is a two lane highway and of course most of the time its a prius holding the whole chain up.
I too share disdain for these cars. I hate the fact they can ride in the carpool and HOV lanes. It makes no sense, they don’t pollute and get better MPG when they are in traffic and using the brakes. The slowness definately kills me, you can always tell when a Prius is a few cars ahead because thats when the line up begins…
Prius stinks. I am only 11 and I hate it. Next to Palo Alto, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the Prius capital of the world. And it stinks.
I drive a prius.
I don’t give a fuck about the environment,
I was a bush supporter.
I think its funny how you put us all into the same group
But yes.
Typical prius drivers are cocks
it was either a 2004 prius or a 1989 accord with no reverse
Oh.. one more comment – to the person who says they “hypermile” and get 60mpg… there are regular diesel engine cars in Europe that get better mileage than that, without hypermiling, and without fancy overpriced technology, and without their car looking like a strange cross between a shopping cart and an armadillo.
I absolutely hate just the concept behind the Prius: a abomination cross between a stubby minvan (which I also hate those drivers) and a Smartcar (whom I also hate those drivers).
Typical, TYPICAL drivers of the Prius, or any Toyota car ever produced, always seem to be the worst possible on the road. They go way too slow, or way too fast, they never signal, they do terrible turns, and the drivers have the most idiotic choice of bumper stickers.
I hate this new hoax and craze for protecting the precious fragile environment and atmosphere and going ‘green’. It just makes those people look like such brainless liberals who fanatically follow things with no insertion of logic whatsoever.
Have you SEEN that new Aston Martin?! What the hell were they THINKING?!
Wow, I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thier “i saved the world” attitudes really frost my gourd. Personally I could have cared less about these people but last year when gas was over four dollars a gallon I went looking for a good economical car. Because people were so scared there was in influx of SUVs on the lots literally going for dirt cheap. I have a farm and tow a lot of equipment around so naturally this was attractive to me. Well, long story short, I got myself an H2. The thing was loaded to the max which is great for the kids. Yeah it does suck on gas but hey, that is my choice and I use it for both work and play. What really gets me is that these prius people come out of the woodwork to bash me for buying an H2. And what really gets me going is reading these articles about these wanna be hippies vandelizing these cars because they think I am destroying the earth. Thank God for those emails being uncovered from the lying green scientists that manipulated the data. I own a farm and I am all for keeping things clean and not dumping toxins into the ground and in the air but CO2 is needed for the environment and it is not causing a problem. These little green stuck up no shirt wearing throw backs from the sixties can kiss the fattest part of my ass. I don’t drive a big car because I have an attitude. I drive it because I like it.
Admittedly, lots of people who bought a Prius do exhibit some (or all) of the annoying behaviors being complained about.
I bought a Prius, but my other car is a 1965 Mustang.
What I save commuting the Prius goes into the care and maintenance of the ‘65.
My only issue with some of the venom dripping from this thread is that the rabid hatred of all things Prius seems to make it okay for some douche in a truck/hotrod/suv to make a point of executing a triple lane change or passing on a shoulder at excessive speed (I was doing 80 in the fast lane with a car in front of me and nowhere to go) just for the sole purpose of “brake checking” the Prius.
On one particular occasion where some guy’s bravado almost embedded my Prius in his BMW, my kids were in the back seat.
There’s no universe in which that can be socially acceptable.
Sometime’s I think that at least a few of the “Prius idiots” have taken defensive driving to the extreme of “offensive driving” simply because people keep putting their lives in very real jeopardy for no other reason than they drive a Prius.
Yeah I agree with most of the comments here. Most Prius drivers and the car itself really grind my gears, and for the same reasons mentioned already. And as said previously, the environmental argument for the Prius is completely bogus, and smug self-absorbed retards staring at their MPG readings in the dash should go suck one.
I really wish the diesel stigma didn’t exist here in the U.S. We’d have a lot more passenger car options with diesel engines…and a lot of sooty air choking our cities lol.
Care about the environment that much? Own an economical car that isn’t made of plastic and lithium batteries, ride a bike, or commute with public transit. Or any combination of the three. Just don’t drive a hideous cheese wedge (or “armadillo x shopping cart” LOL).
Yes, I have noticed, Prius drivers do really weird things. Only and idiot would own something that ugly and buy into the trending lies, that our liberals wants us to believe. It is so sad, that people really got hooked on the green movement, it’s all a sham. Prius owners are simply brainwashed.
Get all of those cars and crush em’. They look stupid like the Plymouth Pacer in the 70’s.
I am glad I am not the only one who notices the oddites of the type of people driving those cars. It is amazing. I get very alert around them, don’t trust em. I wonder what the put in those cars, that makes people drive so stupid, is it the design, the people or both.
Strange. But those, cars need to go. I am freaked out by how many idiots drive those things. I think we should take a tally on how many strange people we have living amongst us driving such fugly vehicles.
They look terrible. What’s wrong with people, falling for all this global warming green, stuff, and buying such a stupid lookin car, just to go along with some dumb media, programming, brainwashing trend.
Sad.. What is this world coming to?
The prius craze is a hoax, wake up liberals and all the others falling for it to. Don’t do it. Those cars are death traps waiting to happen, I just noticed, they barely even have much of a front end in the event of a powerful head on collsion along with their fugly, ugly retarded appearance.
All I can say is, you people driving them, are gullible and easy to brainwash. Wow, I guess we could form a cult and tell these people they would be saving the environment by drinking some poison Kool aid and they would probably obediently follow along.. So sad
Love the Prius, it’s different, never liked the looks of other cars, the Prius is neat, like a mobile phone, not covered in useless chrome to disguise the fact the underneath the ‘latest’ model from GM is the same inefficient technology they were using in the fifties. It’s genuinely something new, and its has a lovely laid back nature. Ok so us Prius drivers may think they’re special, but then they are trailblazing the future and so perhaps they are! I may be a smug dude in my Pious -er Prius, but then I’m not the one wasting money burnin petrol at the stop light. Ok so its not the fastest car ever made, but it well dead funny when it goes faster then people expect and leaves them at the lights because they weren’t fast enough with their ‘old technology’ clutch. Prius is different and just a bit special and I wouldn’t drive anything else.
PS all that stuff about the battery being bad for the environment, that’s just pure spin for petrolheads to lap up. There are more fancy metals used to make a set of chrome wheels for an SUV then there is in the compact hybrid battery, Prius taxi’s are getting 300,000+ miles out of their batteries, and at the end they’re recycled.
I just drive over them with my lifted,gas guzzling,Jeep YJ….nice little speed bump….
I hate Prius drivers. Seriously… driving at like 50 in the fast lanes. Why is it that every time I make it through the congestion in fast lane traffic there are 1 or 2 smug tards driving slow and not caring that other people have places to go?
What is the slow lane for? They should just join the semi trucks. Tards
I drive a Prius. I live in San Jose, CA.
I admit, I think I’m better than you and your stupid blogs that make fun of Prius drivers.
I save the planet every time I step on my accelerator because instead of spewing exhaust, flowers and green seedlings spout from my tailpipe. And as I’m accelerating, I speed past the person on a bicycle. Then I cut them off as I’m turning so they can see my bumper sticker. It says “save the planet, buy a Prius”. I hope they get it. The fact that I’m doing something good for the planet, and they aren’t.
I don’t feel bad about it either. Actually, it makes me feel better about myself every time I do it.
I have a prius and i cant stand other prius drivers but I hate being compared to them all. I also have a toyota v8 4runner all time 4wd and a toyota camry also. I dont care about getting the best mileage out of it. I haul ass everywhere I go and I use it to save gas as I would rather spend my money on jet fuel for a seat to cabo san lucas instead of giving it directly to opec. I save $1200 a year driving a stupid looking prius instead of my 4 runner which I like much better. It is my way to protest that I don’t want to give my money to the stupid saudis that are telling us gas should cost what it is because we are being screwed by the price of gas. I also don’t like being gouged by the taxes for every gallon of gas because the roads are in bad condition where I live so obviously the goverment is spending it on something else. I dont drive a bmw because I used to have one and they break all the time. They are a scam unless you lease them. American cars break all the time. I used to be a buy only american guy but they start falling apart after 75k miles. Now I only buy toyotas because they last as long as the pedal on the prius doesn’t drive you into a tree. My 1994 camry has 280k miles and it still looks and runs good. 2004 4 runner has 107k miles and 2004 prius has 120k miles. I drive a lot and cant afford to buy american till they stop falling apart. Ive got better stuff to do with my money than to pay for repairs on an american car that falls apart and guzzles gas.. Thats why I drive a prius. Also cops dont pull you over if your driving a slow looking car I speed everywhere 80 avg mph.
Thank GOD !!!!!!!! Man, I thought I was all alone in the HATE for that crap car and its tree hugging hippie drivers !!!!!!!! Prius + tree hugger = CAN NOT DRIVE !!!!!! At least two times a day some idiot in Prius is in my way, or jamming traffic. I’m sorry, but your personality dictates the kind of car you drive. And its fucking UGLY !!!!!
So Gary, you statement implies BMW drivers have small penises? What kind of primary research did you do to find that one out?
Funny stuff! Prius drivers are usually far-left wingers, just like the ones on my way into town. Yep, they’re the ones with the pant-load Democrat campaign signs in their yard. What a bunch of loony whackjobs.
But I have to say, while Prius drivers, on the whole, may be Liberal boot lickers, mini van drivers suck, too. So do SUV drivers. And, get behind any Chrysler with an old man driving it, and forget about getting into town anytime soon. Oh, and don’t get me started on drivers of pickup trucks with toppers!
SUV drivers drive SUVs because they think they’re safer in them. The reality is that SUV drivers are scared to drive! And I believe mini van drivers suck at driving because of the design of the mini van itself; the things are too big, their driving positions are too high, and no one is very good at driving a fat, top-heavy box down the road.
To sum up, many, many people totally suck at driving (present company excepted, of course). It doesn’t matter what you drive: if you suck at driving, a BMW won’t help you. Neither will a Mercedes. You’ll still suck at driving. Most people drive like they have one thumb up their butt while trying to light a crack pipe with their other hand. It just can’t be done that way, but that’s the way they try to do it!
I honestly don’t get why people are so bothered by a certain Toyota model car, it really isn’t a big deal. I have a feeling that a lot of these people claiming that prius drivers are all just so terrible are overexaggerating to say that least. There are good drivers and there are bad drivers, and their driving will not become any different once they start driving a different car. That’s completely ridiculous. I live in southern California, I drive a regular old v6 sedan, and I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a prius driver driving rudely or just outright insanely as many of you like to claim. Most I see belong to middle aged women who probably thought it was cute. If you see an asshole driving a prius, their personality isn’t going to change if they got a hummer. They’ll find other reasons to be assholes. Bottom line, it’s just a car. Grow up.