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Velzey, I have to admit, when I first glanced at your photo, I thought it was a collection of condom boxes.I have no reason to hide it from my wife...She likes this stuff also..
I entered the world of shotgun shell box collecting. And I cant do anything small, all of a sudden I am the owner of 300 of them ..Here are a few. I do like the colors!!
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dude thats gorgeousI got a wild hair to build an ultralight 10/22
65.6 oz - 4.1lbs as it sits. I'm embarrassed by how much it set me back. I could have built an AR and saved money
...and you assumed anything on Top Gear is to be taken seriously and that I being a fan of the show would not know that.That video is total B.S. Completely invalid and idiotic. Anyone who believes such nonsense is so totally gullible and naive.
First off, all that nonsense about the Prius doing environmental damage is totally false, and was completely discredited many years ago. It was concocted in a report by a private Detroit auto industry marketing consultant by the name of Art Spinella. Spinella never provided citations for his data in the report, nor did he ever reveal who actually paid to have the report created. Since his report focused on claiming that the Hummer H2 was more economical and did less environmental damage than the Prius, many suspect that GM paid for the report. Spinella has since past away and his company no longer exists.
But his "Dust to Dust" report about the Prius lives on, and people continue to quote it as being fact, when it is most certainly not.
The Pacific Institute has an Integrity of Science project that works to expose attempts to use bogus science to reach invalid conclusions. They issued a scathing report of Spinella's "Dust to Dust", ripping it apart. You can read the report here:
http://www.pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2013/02/hummer_vs_prius3.pdf
And I did not buy my Prius to race around a race track. I bought it for real world driving. And for that, I get 45 mpg when I go on a highway trip, and 37 mpg in normal driving around town.
Compare that to the official EPA 17 mpg city rating the BMW M3 gets, and the EPA 26 mpg highway rating it has. Plus the BMW M3 costs $40,000 more than what I paid for my Prius 9 years ago.
Please don't be so gullible as to believe everything that you see on TV or the Internet. I have news for you: It is not all true.
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...and you assumed anything on Top Gear is to be taken seriously and that I being a fan of the show would not know that.
Come on girls this is a fun thread.Then why post it in the manner that you did, alluding to it being a downside??
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No, I am an extremely defensive driver. I have to be. I pretty much stay in the right lane and drive the speed limit there. Changing lanes a lot increases your chances of being in an accident.
The Prius does not do well at all in crash tests. So I cannot afford to get into an accident.
Here is a photo of a Prius crash test. My Prius actually has a POOR crash test rating:
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The driver of this Prius below was involved in a 6 car accident. Every other driver in the accident survived. But the Prius was knocked off the road, and into a ditch. One can sort of recognize that it is a Prius, but just barely:
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So there is actually a downside to owning a Prius: there is a chance that you might not survive an accident.
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Come on girls this is a fun thread.
"know when to walk away....." and be the adultThen he should have put a smiley or a grin on his post, if he really was indeed joking with his post.
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So what unnecessary, foolish, way to expensive toy did you buy yourself that you're not telling the wife about?
I ended up upgrading optics on two of my rifles because i found prices i couldn't say no to. Both had totally decent scopes to start with, but my AR-10 now has a Vortex Viper HST 4-16. And my 300 win mag now has a Viper Vortex PST 6-24.
Then he should have put a smiley or a grin on his post, if he really was indeed joking with his post.
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Thin skinned and easily offended. Typical Prius driver ;-)