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Motorola is complete crap and have been for years. They're just not a serious competitor against far better offerings from Nokia and other manufacturers.

Well, according to http://products.consumerguide.com/reviews/browse.e pub?sectionId=840:

Top Rated Mobile/Cell Phones
* Motorola EV-DO E815 CDMA Mobile Phone Review
* Nokia 3220 GMS Mobile Telephone Review
* LG Verizon Wireless VX7000 CDMA Mobile Phone Review
* Samsung SGH-e315 GSM Mobile Phone Review
* Motorola RAZR V3 GSM Mobile Phone Review

Motorola takes the #1 and #5 spots. That's 2/5 of the top 5 rated mobile phones. No other company takes more than one spot. So... What again?

Wow, 40% heavier and still gets the same mileage! Any other person would say this was a major improvement.

AND, the Prius is a 5 passenger car with AT-PZEV emissions. One lawn mower session puts out more emissions than a Prius after driving 500 miles. Think about the summation of health costs saved with cleaner air, besides just oil.

And take a look at this picture of your 31.4 cu.ft space Metro. I don't see a huge cargo space behind the back seats, so it must come from folding down the seats.

If you get to do that, you get to do that with the Prius too, which means > 16.1 cu ft of space. Probably closer to 54, if you added 16.1 + rear legroom plus some hand waving.

Your specs say the Metro is a 151 x 62.7 x 53.5 = roughly ~506521.95 cu.in compared to the Prius's 175 x 67.9 x 58.1 = roughly ~690373 cu.in.

Although I see your point about 15 years of innovation and we not CLOSER to 100MPG!

Anyways, so dunno what you're talking about how the Metro is better. QED.

15 years of innovation and a completely new engine design, and we end up with a somewhat safer version of the Geo Metro (40% heavier... and with half the cargo space.)

1990 Geo Metro XFI Specs & Mileage

Weight: 1694 lbs
Cargo Volume: 31.4 cu. ft.
Front leg room (Max): 42.5 in.
Rear leg room (Min): 32.6 in.
Crash Test: Driver ***, Passenger ****

City: 53 MPG
Highway: 58 MPG
Combined: 55 MPG

2005 Toyota Prius Specs & Mileage

Weight: 2890 lbs
Cargo Volume: 16.1 cu. ft.
Front leg Room (Max): 41.9 in.
Rear leg Room (Min): 38.6 in.
Crash Test: Driver *****, Passenger ****

City: 60 MPG
Highway: 51 MPG
Combined: 55 MPG

15 years of innovation and a completely new engine design, and we end up with a somewhat safer version of the Geo Metro (40% heavier... and with half the cargo space.)

1990 Geo Metro XFI Specs & Mileage

Weight: 1694 lbs
Cargo Volume: 31.4 cu. ft.
Front leg room (Max): 42.5 in.
Rear leg room (Min): 32.6 in.
Crash Test: Driver ***, Passenger ****

City: 53 MPG
Highway: 58 MPG
Combined: 55 MPG

2005 Toyota Prius Specs & Mileage

Weight: 2890 lbs
Cargo Volume: 16.1 cu. ft.
Front leg Room (Max): 41.9 in.
Rear leg Room (Min): 38.6 in.
Crash Test: Driver *****, Passenger ****

City: 60 MPG
Highway: 51 MPG
Combined: 55 MPG

How I miss my Subaru Justy, not quite as efficient as this, but a great little car. I would get 50mpg+ if I drove on the interstate and occassionally got behind a semi.

Tom Petty, along with other artists like King Crimson and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, have been responsible for many hours of zoned out internet surfing to some of my favorite sites. You've been there - putting on some tunes, firing up your browser, zoning out and surfing away...
Two minutes later, an hour has passed, the album has ended, and you've been around the world and back and hopefully learned something new.

That's just how I started off the other night. I popped Tom Petty's Wildflowers cd into the drive, cranked up the volume, and fired up the browser. I was immediately sucked in by the sweet acoutic guitar sounds of the title track. Click... Click... Click... You Don't Know How It Feels comes up, I hear the sentimental lyrics, and I drift back to my younger days... Click... Click... Click... Another 30 seconds rolls by and half the album's over... Cabin Down Below just nails me with the big fat Telecasters running through tube amps turned up to 11 sound... Click... Click... Click... I finally make it to Wake Up Time ... "Time to open your eyes... And rise and shine..." and...

I'm accosted by the stench of burning pl

I've got the same car, but mine's a '94. Unless yours is an older model or something, you should only be able to carry 4 people maximum (adults or children), because there's only 4 seats in the car and 4 seatbelts.

I've got a 93 2 door (Images/review here); I think the 94 and later had replaced the center rear seat with a change dish or something, but I've got 2 rear 3 point belts and one rear center lap belt, in addition to the automatic 3 point belts in the front.

Also, the cargo area is only about 5ft x 4.5 ft.

the 90-93 is a larger car than both the 94 and on models and all previous models, giving you increased cargo room.

My highway mileage is only about 32-33 mpg however; I've never seen it get up to 38.

I've found that the sweet spot for cruising speed is around 75 mph. Below that and I get 30 to 35, significantly above that I get under 30.

The Windstar is the old name of the current Freestar.

Oh great, I get mod points and I have to up/down comments about some stupid car.

Possibly you and I can get together somewhere at a stoplight and see if your 04 Prius is faster than 04 Accord EX.

You might have misread what the original poster was probably saying.

He said:

And go ahead and buy one of those shiny new priuses. The 2004 model is bigger (about as big as a 2004 Accord), faster, more efficient, and has the added trunk space of a hatchback.

The only mention of an 04 Accord is when discussing the size; "bigger", "faster", and "more efficient" probably refer to an '04 Prius compared with the previous version of the Prius - according to this review, relative to the original Prius the '04 is 6.9 inches longer in wheelbase, 6.3 inches longer overall, and taller and wider (and heavier) as well, has a bit more horsepower (and I've seen claims that it's faster 0-60mph), and has higher EPA fuel economy.

The V6 EX does accelerate much faster - according to an edmunds.com comparison site, it's 7.5s 0-60mph vs. 10.37 for the Prius. The site doesn't give the acceleration for the 4-cylinder EX. The interior sizes are a mixed bag - the Prius wins on front and rear headroom, rear leg room, and luggage capacity, and the Accord wins on front and rear shoulder and hip room and front leg room. (The Prius, not surprisingly, wins on fuel economy.)

By wasting our time and energy pursuing a fictitious case whose reported results were scientifically unrepeatable, Dateline NBC drew resources in terms of money, time, and mindshare away from very real life-threatening incidents. Can we seek the death penalty for TV shows?

Reviews of HD STBs

The claim was that there are self-sharpening razor blades and that the technology is being held down by Gillette. I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb by saying that if this was true there should be information out on the net that will shed some light on the issue.

When was the last time you saw a report on a product which is specifically not going to market? That sort of thing doesn't get reported, does it? Even if it did, would it be reported in an American paper, or a Brazilian one? (And can you read Portuguese?)

Sorry, but I still think you put too much trust in the 'net (and probably the English-language part of the 'net, at that). The original claim was that Gillette bought a Brazilian company over a decade ago, including all their patents, and then shut them down. So what? Companies buy out other companies all the time. As for the self-sharpening razors, Gillette may even now be improving the product for eventual release (or they may have released it already -- see below). They're not supporting the old products anymore (that's a reasonable interpretation of "shut them down"). This would be consistent with the original poster's claim, and yet so commonplace that nobody would bother to report it, except in passing. Heard anything about what nVidia is doing with 3dfx's video card technology lately?

This is not to say that the original poster's claim is true, by the way. In fact, I consider it uninteresting. Self-sharpening razors have existed for decades (one was patented in 1917), razor manufacturers offer them today, and corporate buyouts (with patents) happen all the time. Again, so what?

There's a reason why tall, narrow SUVs roll over all the time, and why Corvettes never do. Can you guess what that reason is?

Ah, I see. So the Corvette is by far the most likely of all of these vehicles to roll over, right?

• Hummer: 86.5 inches
• Excursion: 79.9 inches
• Suburban: 78.8 inches
• Expedition: 78.6 inches
• CART/IRL cars: 78.5 inches
• Park Avenue: 74.7 inches
• 5th-gen Corvette: 73.6 inches

Hint: it's not the width, it's the ratio of CG height to width. Wider is not *always* better...

There's a reason why tall, narrow SUVs roll over all the time, and why Corvettes never do. Can you guess what that reason is?

Ah, I see. So the Corvette is by far the most likely of all of these vehicles to roll over, right?

• Hummer: 86.5 inches
• Excursion: 79.9 inches
• Suburban: 78.8 inches
• Expedition: 78.6 inches
• CART/IRL cars: 78.5 inches
• Park Avenue: 74.7 inches
• 5th-gen Corvette: 73.6 inches

Hint: it's not the width, it's the ratio of CG height to width. Wider is not *always* better...

There's a reason why tall, narrow SUVs roll over all the time, and why Corvettes never do. Can you guess what that reason is?

Ah, I see. So the Corvette is by far the most likely of all of these vehicles to roll over, right?

• Hummer: 86.5 inches
• Excursion: 79.9 inches
• Suburban: 78.8 inches
• Expedition: 78.6 inches
• CART/IRL cars: 78.5 inches
• Park Avenue: 74.7 inches
• 5th-gen Corvette: 73.6 inches

Hint: it's not the width, it's the ratio of CG height to width. Wider is not *always* better...

Its not quite as impressive as the Honda Insight since its so much bigger, but it will get 40 MPG (combined city and highway) and have a range of around 500 miles on a tank of gas. The price is expected to increase by about 3k over its current 18k base rate for the hybrid model. And its based on a car/unibody chassis so you wont flip over if someone breathes on you. More details are here.