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So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.

Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.

I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???

KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.

Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.

I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???

You'll probably have more people notice you if you get the Prius.

KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.

Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.

I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???

Just get the convertible Prius.

Go for the convertible. We're all about cool.

So are you going to tell the Ladies you meet that you are an Environmental Engineer? NTTIAWWT, Or should you have a car suitable to you Vegas identity.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:So are you going to tell the Ladies you meet that you are an Environmental Engineer? NTTIAWWT, Or should you have a car suitable to you Vegas identity.

Now that's the real moral dilemma, whether to tell them that he's an environmental engineer or that he's a disease-ridden veggie....or both.

KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.

Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.

I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???

I don't see the dilemma.

SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Prius and SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Mustang that weekend. Which one you are driving doesn't make a difference.

Maybe I'm part of the problem rather than part of the solution, but I think it's different than energy saving or conserving or whatever. For instance, if you recycle your bottles, it's not like somebody else is going to put those bottles in a landfill. Those bottles are NOT going into a landfill, because you recycled them. With the cars, it's different, they will both be used that weekend, no matter who is behind each wheel.

What you rent in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.

Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.

I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???

You'll get much better gas mileage in the Prius.

silvercamaro wrote:What you rent in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

Maybe not. You know that kt will post all sorts of revelatory stories once he gets back to the bored.

fantine33 wrote:I don't see the dilemma.

SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Prius and SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Mustang that weekend. Which one you are driving doesn't make a difference.

I agree! Plus maybe the other person who comes along is planning to drive a lot further, maybe to the Grand Canyon. So you'd actually be doing the environmentally friendly thing by taking the bad gas guzzling car away, and forcing them to drive the Prius all that distance!!

TheCalvinator24 wrote:

KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.

Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.

I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???

You'll get much better gas mileage in the Prius.

Yeah, but how's the hottie mileage?

Oh, for Chrissake. It's Vegas. The only real question is which of the two has the more comfortable back seat, if you know what I mean.

sunflower wrote:

fantine33 wrote:I don't see the dilemma.

SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Prius and SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Mustang that weekend. Which one you are driving doesn't make a difference.

I agree! Plus maybe the other person who comes along is planning to drive a lot further, maybe to the Grand Canyon. So you'd actually be doing the environmentally friendly thing by taking the bad gas guzzling car away, and forcing them to drive the Prius all that distance!!

Driving to the Grand Canyon, the Prius would get worse milage than a similar all-gas car.

Peter5858 wrote:Oh, for Chrissake. It's Vegas. The only real question is which of the two has the more comfortable back seat, if you know what I mean.

In Vegas who needs a back seat?

IMNSHO, if the 'stang is 6-cylinder automatic, you might as well be driving the Prius.