I think you must be nauseous from all that exhaust smoke.

Cars like the Prius shouldn\’t even have a color option, cause people who buy cars like that have gotta be just as boring.

No matter how much the price of fuel is, once you get behing the wheel of that GEN-4 6.0L V8 (hopefully soon to be upgraded to the LS3 6.2L V8) all your attention is consumed with wonder as to what the hell is happening under that hood……..!!!!

To each their own all the way, but before you try it out don\’t be so quick to judge.

Alborz,

This was a very good review and it has only added fuel to the burning desire to buy the SS. Thanks and keep up the excellent work.

Sheldon

Unfortunately, the small minded and prejudiced, as witnessed on some of the comments above, seem to be proliferating as to the acceptableness of such vehicles in the current climate.

Well kudos to Toyota Marketing!

As for the extra 30$ a week, well I can appreciate that for some thats just loose change, if at all.

I see the point with “hybrids are not the answer”, but they are a step towards a solution, wether it be hybrids, or electric it has sped up the process of getting more fuel efficient cars, that and also the price of oil does help with this.

Alborz, In relation to this line…

“Why is it that the left lane in Australia is always the fastest? Yet it’s illegal to undertake?”

It is not illegal to undertake (pass on the left) on a multi-lane road.

Queenslanders do it because they also believe that you must let one in on the freeway (which is NOT a merge but classed as a ‘lane end’: where the driver entering the freeway must make a safe lane-change without unreasonably obstructing traffic).
This (mis) belief then leads to Queenslanders saying “bugger it, I’ll keep right because it’s too hard to let people in every 500 meters (ipswich motorway could have been fixed by shutting off half of the superfluous on-ramps).

Any way back to the point. I noticed you were relying on the dashboard display to back up your story. I have found these on commodores to be Optimistic (if not downright wrong). Did you fill the tank back up to full and post the actual fuel used for your trip? If so what was the actual litres consumed for the piece. Would be interesting to see how accurate your particular SS’ trip computer was before we all make the hoorah for V8′s (which have just as much right to exist as Ssangyong do).

Anyhow about the SS ,awesome points of few. The scare mongering that has been put out by the media about climate change this/that is absolute nonsense. Their is absolute proof from 200 years ago that it has been and was hotter then then now…It is the natural course of this earth. V8′s are here to stay and RA, your an idiot, i guarantee you in 20 years time that the ozone will still be their, the heat will still be up/down(despite the changes in climate emmissions etc etc)
Bring on the V8′s, Great fuel economy can be the same in them as in prius any day, its the way you drive the car, not the car the way it is built..

Later people..

….than drive a bloody Prius!

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and Mad Bloody Max,

long may the last of the V8 Interceptor’s live,

Blown or not,

Amen.

Ironically The General is looking at going from Pushrods to Cams while Ford are looking at going from Cams to Pushrods

With the tacho needle bouncing from hitting the rev limiter I dump the clutch and laugh and scream but no-one can hear me as I’m drowned out by the fantastic bellow and howl of my BOSS V8 roaring as the rear wheels – with traction control switched off – instantly fry themselves into clouds and clouds of thick white tyre smoke as the rear end fishtails corrected with opposite lock and I grab second gear and do it all over again and I just cannot get the smile off my face….

Usually when I do this it’s at a set of traffic lights next to a Prius.