> They're ugly It's challenging to find an objective arbiter of taste on cars. I happen to like the look. > slow I presume you mean something like "doesn't h

> They're ugly It's challenging to find an objective arbiter of taste on cars. I happen to like the look. > slow I presume you mean something like "doesn't have as much power (and thus less acceleration) as my preferred style of car". That may well be true, but it's completely irrelevant to me how fast a car accelerates. Most of my time is spent at the speed limit (+8mph). > and expensive Well that is just ill informed. Prius consistently comes out on top (it's the cheapest) on total cost of ownership studies. And that's in the US, with its ridiculously low gas tax. The relative cheapness of a Prius is much more obvious in cultures that don't abhor Pigovian taxation.