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The Prius blue-ribbon-silver-bullet synergy badge looks more professional…
Looks as professional, tasteful, and elegant as the decals on the sides of GM’s hybrid trucks. (This decal is strangely absent from the Malibu and Aura hybrids.)
It’s not bad… but I think it needs to be bigger. Plus I like the choice of a script font, because script font = classy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5rQM_HAcfA&NR=1
Well it is nice to be a part of the solution instead of part of the problem.
I can barely make out what it says on that front door – they definitely need to make the font much, much bigger.
This SUV is all about the badge. From the badge engineered Porsche crest on the front, to the “look at me driving a hybrid” decals on the sides. How can you act holier-than-thou and Pious in this big, thirsty beast?
I bet it has monster low end torque, and for how much more of a price premium? Please tell me there is a carbon offset program involved or is that a dealer installed accessory?
We’ve all heard the argument that people buy hybrids because they want to make a statement. So naturally, if there isn’t a dedicated hybrid model (i.e. Prius, Insight) then we need to put big-ass badges all over the car so that the driver feels special and edgy. (I drive a Prius because I need reliable transportation with good gas mileage, not because I have a love affair with questionable styling and understeer) Regardless, is anyone driving a Hybrid Lexus LS/RX or a Hybrid Tayukalade in order to make a statement? This seems really unnecessary… and who are they fooling?
I’m particularly fond of the “Cayenne S” ahead of the “hybrid” decal, seen on the back door. Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to be taken out behind the woodshed. IMO the Cayenne has not aged well at all, not that it was spectacular to begin with.
The 80s are back, again. Still.
Wow, so they invented stickers that add horsepower, and now they came out with stickers that cancels out your pollution.
Who knew, these stickers are awesome!
Brock Yates (of C&D) took a Cayenne S on One Lap the year that the Cayenne came out. He practically fell over himself talking about what a great vehicle it was. Chacun à son goût, I guess.
I’m still holding out for the Hummer H1 Hybrid, but only if it has a decal at least as big as the ones on the Escalade and Cayenne.
Yet the GT2 still doesn’t have a sweet “turbo” decal. Owners are probably furious.
I am disgusted.
But the Lexus 400h hybrid doesn’t have a large hybrid logo anywhere on it.
Just buy a Turbo Cayenne and order the stickers as spare parts et voilà le tour est joué!
The stuff that people choose to complain about simply astounds me.
This is some ironic reference to the late ’70s/early ’80s that I just don’t get.
Right?
RIGHT?!?
At first glance, I thought that was a Malibu Maxx! Yikes!
This photo hit me from many different angles:
Aestetic: Yes, the font size needs to be bigger, so big in fact, that the entire car fits in the space between two letters …
Commercial: I wonder if they charge the customer more to add the logo, or to remove it…
Philosophic: The text juxtaposed with this car, reminded me of something once read in the good book: “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward…in heaven.”
Actually I think the word Hybrid needs to wrap around the whole vehicle. And be printed on the front in reverse so you can read it in your rear view mirror. Amazing how they managed to make this damn vehicle less attractive.
Relax, it’s a Porsche, so the stickers obviously won’t be standard equipment. They’ll just be included in some $4000 “Hybrid sport appearance package” option.
Who thinks that the letters will continue to be on the side of the car? Any thought that this is just the advertising photo?
Actually knowing Porsche, they will charge $500 or so for the stickers and still 90% of the buyers will go for them :P
Same as it is (in Europe at least) with the Porsche logos on the wheels. By default they are black and white, for coloured ones you have to pay sth like a EUR250 premium. Still, everybody takes it. The only question is whether it will ever backfire.
When can I drive this Hybrid Cayenne out of the showroom? Official production start date? 2010? 2011? :)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,472189,00.html
I heard rumors that dealers in Texas are selling Hybrid decals to non-hybrid Tahoe owners (and making a killing doing so). They’re lining up in droves. No joke.
Seems screaming green is the new bling.
I think it’s ghastly.