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But only if it's like this one!

https://blog.caranddriver.com/...rius-very-different/

Hellcat-Powered Toyota “PriuSRT8” Is a Different Kind of Prius—Very Different
NOVEMBER 2, 2017 AT 10:30 AM BY ALEXANDER STOKLOSA | PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL SIMARI
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Hellcat-Powered Toyota "PriuSRT8" A second-generation Toyota Prius that has been force fed a supercharged Hellcat V-8 turns the whole Prius idea completely on its head. Finished just days before the 2017 SEMA show opened this week, this anti-Prius is aptly named PriuSRT8—a mishmash of Prius and SRT8.

Built by American Racing Headers (ARH), the PriuSRT8 keeps the Prius’s basic shell intact but replaces everything else with hardware that can support a 707-hp-plus V-8 engine. In went a custom ladder frame, a four-link rear suspension, a nine-inch rear axle, a carbon-fiber driveshaft, a six-speed Tremec manual transmission, and a full roll cage.

Because the Hellcat engine on its own wasn’t insane enough, ARH bolted a bigger Whipple supercharger to it. (The engine, by the way, was sourced from FCA, but it isn’t one of Mopar’s new Hellcat crate engines.) In case it isn’t immediately obvious, the Prius is no longer front-wheel drive.

The interior is completely custom, and the back seats were sacrificed to make room for the roll cage. That cuts down on the PriuSRT8’s usability, but it’s not slowing ARH down—a rep told us they plan to daily-drive the thing.

As fans of puns and wordplay, we appreciated the clever badges and stickers ARH had slapped all over its creation: “Weapon of Mass Consumption,” “Fixed in the U.S.A.,” and a “Mean Ass Vehicle” label made to look like a California HOV sticker. The PriuSRT8 badges borrow their font design from Chrysler’s SRT division, and the small “Burns Gas and Rubber” badge on the hatch adopts the look of Toyota’s own Hybrid Synergy Drive button. If we had to guess a motivation behind the project, it would be a one-finger salute to political correctness.




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Damn you had me going there. As I opened the thread I contemplated finding a GIF of a wet tongue giving a raspberry to post! Smile LOL



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They'd still drive in the left lane at 5 mph under the speed limit.


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They'd still drive in the left lane at 5 mph under the speed limit.


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Top speed?

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If we had to guess a motivation behind the project, it would be a one-finger salute to political correctness.


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I like the Prius. I've wanted to get one for a while and plaster it with right wing political stickers and pro gun stickers. They just arnt big enough for our family though. Frown

I saw a Dodge Viper with a Prius "Hybrid synergy drive" badge on the back. I got a good chuckle out of that.


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A motor with wheels on it. Pretty funny. Put a motor like that in a Ranger sized pickup would be a cool - heck in my F150 would be too!!




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That last photo! Hahahahahahahaha!



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I have noticed that anytime traffic is backed up, traveling slowly or otherwise AFU, a Prius is involved.


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I can't imagine the driver being very comfortable in there with the engine so far back...



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turn in your man card....

seriously...you really want to be identified as a tree-hugging bark-chewing vegan libtard?



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turn in your man card....

seriously...you really want to be identified as a tree-hugging bark-chewing vegan libtard?

You must not have read the op's post. A race car with a Prius shell would only piss off the Libs.
 
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Smile

yeah, but its still a Prius... Smile

its like putting a V12 twin turbo in a Lada...its still a Lada



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But, but, but...it's a Prius. It's saving the Planet.


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[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC


 
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this is what all the fuss is about...




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