Toyota Prius pickup

[Brother Mark]

It looks like a big hatch back without the "hatch".

[Otter77]

I'd buy one if it made $'s and sense to do so... but chances are that it doesn't, and won't. Even the current generation of Prius just doesn't make sense... the cost doesn't outweigh the "savings" in gas - particularly when you factor-in new batteries every 8 years or so. I mean seriously... why would you pay $30,000 for a special hybrid car that only gets like 40-45mpg when you can go get an old Honda CRX for $800, fix it up for another $1,000 or so... and get 45mpg?

I feel like - if I'm going Electric - I want to go ALL electric. It's going to be a much more efficient machine if you get the weight out of the gasoline engine.

I can definitely see the viability of the idea behind a strong plugin electric pickup truck - they already have a very fast all-electric sports car (Tesla). The problem with electric is always going to be RANGE until the batteries are just amazing enough to not matter or we come up with another way to generate electricity than a motor that spins a wheel that makes electrons move.

Hybrids though just don't make sense.

[tango]

I'd buy one if it made $'s and sense to do so... but chances are that it doesn't, and won't. Even the current generation of Prius just doesn't make sense... the cost doesn't outweigh the "savings" in gas - particularly when you factor-in new batteries every 8 years or so. I mean seriously... why would you pay $30,000 for a special hybrid car that only gets like 40-45mpg when you can go get an old Honda CRX for $800, fix it up for another $1,000 or so... and get 45mpg?

Reminds me of an interesting test they did on Top Gear in the UK. They put a Prius round their test track with the mission to go as fast as it could. They also put a BMW M3 on the same track at the same time, with a mission to keep up with the Prius.

Needless to say the M3 didn't have much trouble keeping up with the Prius, and at the end of the test they found the M3 had used less fuel along the way.

[Firefighter]

"Prius" and "Pickup" go together about as well as "Men's" and "Kotex".