“No thanks, I’d rather drive a Prius :]”

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definitely original this time I swear.

Lets imagine a scenario where some carbrain shows off their “wonderful” 2023 Toyota 4Runner with 13 mpg because of all of the heavy modifications they added that will only be used twice ever. You want to leave this one-sided conversation, but how?

it’s simple.

“No thanks, I’d rather drive a Prius”

Their truck-shaped brain (including the bed) will collapse inward at the thought of somebody not falling head over heels for their SUV. They will sputter and die at the idea that someone would willingly drive the (from their perspective) gayest car in existence.

They will get mortally wounded at the thought of you choosing to drive a 56 MPG car (🤢)

Thus allowing you to walk away without another word.

(i’m not advertising priuses i’m not an undercover salesman i swear.)

ETA because I forgot to put this in: the reason why Prius is being said instead of say, an electric bike or scooter is because to them, saying Prius is more personal, if you say bike or scooter you will likely be dismissed

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My boss still drives a beat up prius. Six figure salary, very well respected in his field, and he still drives a paid off cash car with some of the best mpg because he doesn't need to be flashy.

Smart man. If only we had other options but he's doing the best with what he has.

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Proud parent of a gay car

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Same here, second hand 2005 model. been serving proudly for my mom and me for nearly 10 years now

brassica-uber-allium

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You are missing out on a golden opportunity to pill them on the subaru sambar or similarly tiny japanese mini truck that is 1000x better than their overweight vehicle in almost every metric that they care about

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They don’t need a truck. They need a cowboy costume.

explosive_potatoes22

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Noted

MilesPrower1992

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They really wouldn't care, in fact they'll just use that as an excuse to be a dick to you. The best approach is just to not engage

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the best way to engage is to work towards high gas prices. more aid to ukraine and more aid to israel pisses off russia and oil producing middle eastern countries so thats great for society outside of those warzones

MilesPrower1992

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Are you seriously advocating that people should support wars, so that gas prices will go up and slightly inconvenience car drivers?

Please tell me I'm misinterpreting and that's not what you're trying to say.

Regardless, if you think that's the best way to engage, you're still wrong. The best way to get rid of cars is to give people a reason to travel without using them. A slight increase in gas prices will just make people a little mad and then they'll just keep driving anyway.

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you aint gonna do all that overnight lol. what you can do is send ukraine weapons to destroy russian refineries and piss off the middle east so much that opec cuts production. those things can happen overnight

MilesPrower1992

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"Support war so that more places will be destroyed therefore raising the price of gasoline, in order to slightly inconvenience car drivers" is perhaps the most sociopathic take I have ever heard- and I do mean that literally.

I can clearly see that I'm not going to suddenly convince you that ending a war is more important than slightly raising gas prices, so I won't even bother.

Although if your goal was purely to raise fuel prices, you'd be advocating for a higher tax on fuel, so I can't help but feel that you really do support war and you're just using this as a way to justify it.

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i mean, its just a machiavellian view of the world. theres no need to try to convince me that ending war is a good thing, i already believe that. its just that peace is not realistic and you will die peacefully at 100 years old before peace is ever achieved everywhere in the world. you can push for a higher tax on fuel but thats also not realistic, especially in america

its also worth mentioning that high fuel prices dont "slightly inconvenience car drivers" since we know that if the prices get high enough, their behaviors will actually change. like you already said, there are other ways to increase fuel costs, but all im saying is that most of them are politically untenable whereas you can easily get americans to support giving aid to ukraine and israel. thats quite literally what congress did a few days back

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My mom once, a long time ago, said she would stop driving if petrol goes over €1,20 per litre. It’s now almost €2,- per litre and she’s still driving because it’s the most convenient option.

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Some people here in the US think that if we change the gas price to $4/gallon (.90 euro/liter) people will suddenly stop driving.

Regardless that it's been higher than that and people still drove anyway.

The solution to car dependency is to make people not NEED to depend on cars, I don't understand why people won't just accept that

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"if prices get high enough, people will up and stop driving"
No. Not even close to correct.

I used to be crazy about cars. I always chose to drive when I could. In fact that only ever changed once I moved to a city with good public transport- I.E. a reason to not drive my car. Not a single time have I ever looked at gas prices and decided "Yep, I'm gonna stop driving places".

As for the comment about "you'll never fully end war", that may be true, but that doesn't mean you should SUPPORT war, which is something I didn't expect to have to explain.

"pushing for a higher tax on fuel is unrealistic" It's a hell of a lot more realistic than supporting wars as some backwards way to make people suddenly stop driving cars.

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Why would Middle Eastern producers get mad over Russian refineries being destroyed or gas prices going up? Doesn't that just mean they can sell their oil for more money? If I remember correctly, last time they cut their production their profits went up because of how expensive the gas prices were (After an Arab-Israeli war). So i don't see how would they get mad when they don't even have to cut production this time.

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i can see how youre confused since the wording on my comment was off but the two statements are separate. sending weapons to israel is what pisses off the middle east

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Personally, I’d rather not drive (even a Prius)

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I’d rather take the bus

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i honestly find the backlash behind the prius the more interesting thing. so i remember being in a lot of car communities around 05 or so around the time the prius started being the popular car amongst celebrities and was seen as the "gay little car for hollywood elites" and i always found it interesting and actually mirrors a lot of the talking points behind electric cars and/or walkable cities. this fear that it's everything wrong with the car market at the time. if you weren't around at the time, you can't understand how much hate was thrown that car's way. it was gay, it was too feminine, it was slow, it was going to destroy the internal combustion engine, it was emasculating, it was for elites, it's not sporty (despite not trying to be). i remember my ex was really into that jeff dunham dude (the right wing comedian who had the puppets) and he had a whole thing about his wife having a "powder blue prius" and talking about it in this lispy voice, if you want an example of the prius hate, there's a good example.

here's the interesting part however. there were just as many car guys saying "hey, it's a good daily and the savings in gas means more money towards our project cars" but were quickly denounced as "gay" because it's a manly man mans hobby. i think once a lot of these folk realised they couldn't say something was "gay" anymore without sounding super homophobic, they actually just doubled down on the hyper masculinity dick measuring contest. this is where i think the argument about the "potential" comes in...... and this is key to understanding the truckbrain.

as much as it will hurt them to hear this. they are proving that gender isn't biological, it's performative. the major difference is they're often set on playing the part of hypermasculinity. what does it mean to be "masculine" well, it's this old idea that men "provide" and men "work hard" and all that nonsense. they might work in an office job but as long as they beat their chest in their f250 and have their mcmansion at the edge of town, they must be a real man, because it's not about the signifiers, it's about the "potential". they have the potential to go out and do backbreaking labour, but they never have to prove it. they have the potential to move an entire ikea showroom's worth of furniture, but very rarely will they need to. they have the potential to go on the offroad trails...... but probably wont.

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You win this post

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I'd just walk away. No reason to dignify them any response. Their perspective is one I cannot learn anything from.

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I am not sure why you think they’d care, frankly.

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Ok, I'll buy a Prius

When I get my driving licence

Which I may never get :)

existing-human99

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idk 56mpg seems pretty darn impressive to me

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My diesel sandero easily makes that

Logical-Vermicelli53

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Who likes SUVs or trucks?

I love cars but SUVs and trucks are a gigantic waste of space, do people think they’re impressive?

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Fuck your Prius. Fuck that 4Runner even more. But fuck your Prius — it’s still a car.

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My sister is really into cars. I have a shitty little PT Cruiser but it gets the job done and works fine. She's modding her car, it's always breaking down and there's always more work to be done. My PT Cruiser has had it's battery replaced and besides that has not broken down on me once and just keeps chugging. It seems reliable cars suck because they aren't as expensive or fast lmao, the logic is so flawed

explosive_potatoes22

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“YOUR CAR SUCKS, ITS RELIABLE, NIT A MONEY PIT, AND DOESN’T BEG FOR MORE TO BE ADDED??? SUCH A GAY CAR!!1”

FlyingDutchman2005

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If that’s her hobby so be it, but they should probably stick to tracks or off road trails.

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Yeah I'm fine with the hobby aspect until she starts driving like a maniac on public roads. That I can't excuse, but I definitely get the appeal of working on your car for fun.

FlyingDutchman2005

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100% agreed

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Now I want to make "I'd rather be driving a Prius" bumper stickers to start sticking on these trucks.

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Except... I already drive a Prius.

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The SUV is the worst of all vehicles. Can't do what a truck can. Isn't as a efficient as a small normal car.

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The capacity of a small sedan, the footprint of a van, and the gas consumption of a semi. What’s not to love?

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I still have (and occasionally drive) an older car from the 2000s. I pretty much personally boycott buying new(er) cars because I see through their extortionate inflationary prices and gimmicky latest tech/features.

In the meantime I drive it less and less because I discovered the joy of using the bicycle. The more I 'drive' the bicycle the more upgraded its engine/range gets. And it's the only vehicle that can be stored/transported inside another vehicle, doubling its commute use-case/range/possibilities.

"My bicycle has unlimited legroom"

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Had a Prius and an old 98 4Runner for a while. 4Runner was a driveway queen that only went on short runs because no one wanted to fill her up. That said the 4Runner’s killer app was I could roll down the back window and throw the bike in the back through the window if I needed to rescue a stranded bicyclist and their bike (which was helpful because the wife and I both commute primarily by bike.).

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Why not the Fiat Multipla?

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I think the Multipla didn't make it accross the Atlantic.

But the Citroen Berlingo would also break their brains.

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Please stop posting car ads here.

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It's literally the ugliest car ever built.

If you'd rather drive this than someone's truck or SUV... That's an insult!

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I'm gay af so I want a Prius now, thanks OP, I'll leave this sub and embrace carbainess /s

explosive_potatoes22

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OMG I'LL FINALLY GET MY COMMISION :D

/s pls don't kill me.