Especially with the ‘hideous’ part, I was hoping this was an actual hybrid engine from a Ram pickup... well feck that now...

Man, that is flagrant false advertising.

One way to do it is for Automakers to sponsor mines themselves. This is a much better read... https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1113697_bmw-battery-sourcing-ethics-highlight-cobalt-mining-issue-for-electric-cars

Well one, this isn’t a very serious conversation, just what-ifs. And I thought name dropping the Sandero was still a thing here....

All I’m trying to say is be careful of what you wish for. A city full of DPF-clogged Skodas is not what you want or need.

Why ask for a Skoda - of all things... When you can ask for a Dacia. Preferably a Sandero.

So Miley Cyrus ripped twerking from this?

I wish to hope that your boycott wouldn’t go tits up either.

292mpg?! Didn’t know they put a Honda Insight gearbox in things like this.

Look no further!

I’d give your brother some slack on the Aux port. I think it’s handy that there’s a reliable, OEM fitted port to fit a jack into. My friends however call it a godsend.

That’s odd.
Well, you sound like my father when he first tried to drive a Prius unsupervised. The throttle mapping was totally alien that lead to dawdling and flooring with no in between. He didn’t know how to put it into D or R. And when the engine stopped at a red light when it should, he thought it stalled and…

Oh haha. Ah well. You know fecking plenty then.
It would be some time yet till there’s info and parts to start modding the new architecture’s rear suspension.

Even though it improves handling, and I don’t know personally how it drives, but the packaging of it infuriates me almost. It has ruined the Prime for me. The…

Unfortunately for you guys in the US, the Priuses you got had 15 inch rims as standard accompanies with the shitty standard rubber that the states are saddled with.

In the EU we have the grey 16 inch magnesium alloys as standard and tyres with a not-so-tall sidewall. When driven properly, such as not turning the…

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Something tells me that you may not have actually driven it. Hmmm..

if you used a Torque App or something before replacing the battery, could you tell me what the delta voltage was between the max and min cells?

I got a 153,800 mile ‘07 that spent most of its life in Manchester and spent another 7 years in an even colder Dublin. The original battery when idle is averaging 0.1V delta…

Right on, man.

Dunno if you are on priuschat and are familiar, but regardless - there is little to no way to trick the computers in allowing an increase of ICE power. One dude messed around with the Inverter and installed a bypass which improved 0-60 times to 8 seconds before blowing a safety fuse.

I think that’s one…

Maybe and I hope that’s just a US thing, but the Echo *ahem* Yaris is a damn good workhorse. Same thing goes for the Micra. Without the very early, tend setting LRR tyres, the Gen I Prius, like the Yaris, was joyfully nimble for its lack of forward movement.

It’s an excellent student car - if they’re not needlessly obsessed about not being seen in a Prius.
It’s an excellent road trip car - if you stretch often enough.

I got a UK-imported ‘07 with +150,000 miles and while Ireland isn’t exactly touring country like the US, going from east to west can take a good part of 5…

If you were to imagine a hybrid car that had both an engine and two motors. Does it have one electric machine and two gas machines, or one gas and two electric?