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The Prius deniers | Toby Litt

9 February, 2010 - 21:21

Cars and gloating go together. But glee at the plight of the tree-hugger-carrier is something else

As any random five-minute segment of Top Gear will demonstrate, car ownership is roughly 5% about getting from A to B and 95% about gloating. Gloating that your car is either nippier than the other guy's or more fuel-efficient. Gloating that it's less grossly boy-racer naff or that it turns heads faster than in[...]

[Published in GreenNews - Read the original article]