Contributions of the group Hybrid Cars

Bressanone/Brixen

nobody@ipernity.com (Kees) — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:56:32 +0000

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It’s hard to find a privately owned Prius in Italy...

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nobody@ipernity.com (Kees) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:24:01 +0000

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Icking - “Der Baumgartner”

nobody@ipernity.com (Kees) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:24:01 +0000

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Teil vom Beitrag Spaziergänge durch Icking: die Ortsdurchfahrt.

Part of the thread Spaziergänge durch Icking: die Ortsdurchfahrt.

Not driving

nobody@ipernity.com (Kees) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:44:01 +0000

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Look at me how I appear to be driving. However, I’m not. So I might post this pic in the Alias* Group as well –but I won’t.

The car is a hybrid Toyota Prius, one of the first in Germany. We’ve had ours for two years now, and we still belong to the happy few: 110mph is clearly too slow for the Autobahn, but we love the car as it is. About 22.000 miles, and no trouble at all.

It’s pure luxury... Well, we were about fifty when we got our first car (for a few months, while waiting for the Prius, we had a Renault; failing a driver’s license, I never drove it), so you could say we were rewarded for our patience...

* [EDIT: This used to be a Group on Flickr...]

Ferrara - Toyota Prius

nobody@ipernity.com (Kees) — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:48:34 +0000

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In Italy, we saw about five Toyotas Prius against one Fiat Cinquecento. I trust next year things will be different.

It’s a very satisfying experience to drive this car in Italy: fuel consumption, at last, is as low as officially indicated. We filled up ours in Austria, drove 900km through Italy, and filled up again in Austria with more than 4 liters left in the tank (good for another 100km). And I’m not exactly a slow driver (though slower than Werner, of course...).
A controversial car, especially in Germany, but it suits us, and has served us well for almost 60,000km.

Oostknollendam

nobody@ipernity.com (Kees) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:39:01 +0000

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In the province of North-Holland there is a local equivalent of the Bavarian rustical building style (an early example of which is our house): it is connected with the river Zaan, and could be described as ... well, see for yourself.

In the last decades, Oostknollendam has heartily adopted the Zaan style, which was quite rare when I first came there. So everything you see on this picture is fake –except the car, of course.

Icking/Dorfen

nobody@ipernity.com (Kees) — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:41:01 +0000

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Isn’t that parked car a hybrid Toyota Prius? I suppose it must be Harrison Ford visiting Dorfen, or Brad Pitt...