Bashing Toyota is hot right now. Local news is a flitter with stories of bad breaks and stuck gas pedals putting families in plight as their U.S. made pseudo foreign cars careen out of control. Today’s story was about a Prius. A well intentioned green minded family was driving along, minding their business when all of a sudden the gas pedal gets stuck! Wait, scratch that. Sorry. The accelerator pedal gets stuck. Prius’s (Priui?) don’t have gas pedals. You can actually tell, visually speaking that Prius don’t have gas pedals. The act of replacing the gas pedal with an accelerator pedal sucked all the testosterone out of the vehicle, hence the odd super un-sexy half lozenge half kidney bean look to the ugly thing. Anyway, back to the runaway Prius. The driver called the highway patrol fearing for his life after his vehicle reached speeds of up to 94 mph’s. The quick thinking cops got in front of the vehicle and slowed down bring the situation to a safe halt unfortunately leaving the vehicle relatively intact and undamaged.
The media, quick to pile on cornered a Toyota spokesperson and asked him to comment on the story. The spokesperson’s reaction become a story unto itself as he broke into a huge grin, and asked the reporter to repeat the facts several times, grinning more broadly with each re-telling until he resembled the proverbial cheshire cat. When asked why he was smiling so, he responded: “This is the first recorded instance of a Prius going 94 miles per hour.”