Remember those 300 Prius' we bought 5 years ago?

[TFatseas]

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/25/hundreds-of-5-year-old-municipal-vehicles-found-in-miami-that-we/

Have you ever bought a brand new cars only to forget where you put it? How about 300 of them? Probably not – unless you're Miami-Dade County, which was recently reunited with 298 vehicles it bought brand new between 2006 and 2007.

The county "discovered" this fleet of no-mileage vehicles after reading about them in a Spanish-language newspaper (http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2012/04/20/1182845/flota-de-carros-abandonados-del.html&usg=ALkJrhj19feERN_ut7S3R8EXcB93TrSQkg) there (see the source for more images). Most of the misplaced motorcade is made up of Toyota Prius (http://www.autoblog.com/toyota/prius/) hybrids whose warranties either expired with very few miles on the odo or will very soon.
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Seriously?

[Onkel Neal]

Government, we need more of it.

[TFatseas]

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1020/miamiprius.jpg

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5061/miamiprius2.jpg

How do you forget TWO FULL PARKING GARAGES OF VEHICLES?

[Stealhead]

Makes you wonder how much this happens I mean on a smaller scale a little here a little there I bet a lot.

By the way that is the same parking garage from different points of view at different times you can plainly see the rail junction in both photos.So it is one full parking garage.

The top photo looks like Prius the bottom one looks like a bunch of Crown Victorias(maybe the Police Interceptor package) panel vans(useful too cops and utility workers) and trucks useful to all manner of supervisors.

[Rilder]

300 Prius' What were they going to reenact the 300 Spartans but with cars? :rotfl2:

[RickC Sniper]

How much you want to bet that when the cars were first purchased there were politicians crowing about how much money they were saving "the people" because of the fuel efficient cars they just got.

[CaptainHaplo]

How much you want to bet that when the cars were first purchased there were politicians crowing about how much money they were saving "the people" because of the fuel efficient cars they just got.

They were so fuel efficient they didn't use any fuel at all for a couple of years....

[Oberon]

300 Prius' What were they going to reenact the 300 Spartans but with cars? :rotfl2:

THIS IS MADNESS!

Madness?

THIS

IS

TOYOTAAAAAAAAAA!!

*crash*

[soopaman2]

:har: @ Oberon

So who is the Persians in this story?

*Ominous picture of Henry Ford in a Darth Vadar Mask*

[vienna]

I don't know what's worse: buying the cars and not using them...

OR...

Buying 800 police cars and not even trying them out first to see if the officers can fit in the driver's seat...

http://www.torquenews.com/1080/german-police-cant-fit-their-new-squad-cars

So much for german efficiency and planning... :DL

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[Oberon]

:har: @ Oberon

So who is the Persians in this story?

*Ominous picture of Henry Ford in a Darth Vadar Mask*

"Our Model Ts will block out the sun!"

"Then we will drive with the roof up"

[Tribesman]

So much for german efficiency and planning...
Could be worse, could be Irish.
Nothing like a state agency buying a fleet of trucks and then having the state ban the trucks because its new tunnel to take trucks off the city streets is too small for the trucks to use.

[Ducimus]

***8211; unless you're Miami-Dade County,

That says it all. No amount of Idiocracy from this state should be surprising.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aourgM6woGU/TjQ6teBGrRI/AAAAAAAAOFI/2e_Wu28wnMA/s200/floriduh.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

Plural of Prius is Prii, according to Toyota. Not that you'd have a plural of the interpretation from Latin.

It'd be my choice too. Sounds better than all the alternatives. :yep:

Source (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/21/toyota-decrees-the-plural-of-prius-is-prii-your-latin-teach/)