at the risk of being banned: i think the new Toyota Prius looks kinda nice!!

[DitchPanda]

3 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I was thinking more about the matrix…….

Gotta stop living in 99 and get to 2022 bud! Jk...loved that movie. I was the perfect age of 16 for it when it came out.

[Darth-Baiter]

that first Matrix where the camera panned out from the cops and right onto Trinitys...err...onto Trinity was life changing.  

[Catt]

[CountryboyinDC]

On 11/28/2022 at 8:27 PM, slonezp said:

Probably has less to do with the platinum itself and more to do with the lack of usage.

It's actually predominatly the older models and the fact that the exhaust systems stay at lower temperatures than a comparable traditional ICE exhaust system.  For that reason, in order to catalyze the reactions they're on there for, they need to have more bearing surface, and more of the rhodium, palladium, and platinum that make them so much more valuable.  The older ones evidently ran in a hybrid mode (electric motor and ICE simultaneously) a lot more than the newer ones, which tend to stay either all electric or a greater proportion ICE-powered.  So the new ones run hotter when they're running and don't have the massive catalysts of the older ones.  Neighbors 3 doors down had theirs cut off 2:30 in the morning according to someone's doorbell camera.  Can't believe how brazen thieves are.

On 11/29/2022 at 1:22 PM, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve he was smart, he would put it on top of the car 

A bunch of the whitewater kayakers put their kayaks inside the car, and I'm not talking cargo vans here.  One lady took her kayak when she went to buy cars so she made sure it would fit inside (she has a Honda Fit) and several evenings this summer I saw a guy with his kayak in the passenger seat of his convertible Toyota Solara (not sure how that worked).   I'm with you though, the only thing wet and filthy that needs to go inside the car is me.