The new Toyota Prius doesn’t cut it. Not by a long shot.
The redesigned hybrid that debuted on Nov. 16 at the Los Angeles Auto Show won critical applause for its improved body. It looks less like a medical appliance from the 1980s and more like a pretty teardrop.
But the econo-appliance routinely owned by the nation’s absolute worst drivers (proven time and again by unscientific studies conducted by moi) is not the electric vehicle we deserve. We deserve something that looks so good, we glance back after parking near one. Something that makes us smile like a 9-year-old on helium gas and summer break when we press the accelerator. We need something that we drive because we love it, not because the neighbors say it’s “the right thing to do.”
