WHO AMONG US CAN SAY HE NEVER LOST TRACK OF 298 PRIUSES?

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.

(Thanks to Tal E)

Comments

[Omniskeptic]

One of my life's goals is to lose a Prius, but not to find it again.

[O the Umanity]

P'haps this wuz merely an attempt to "bank" a huge carbon footprint ... help keep Miami warm(er), y'know?

[Not My Usual Alias]

Follow the money, folks.
This PriusGate story could be made into a movie.

[Cheesewiz]

Guilty or innocent, Ex-mayor Alvarez is now guilty.

[Punkin]

I can see how you can lose those Priuseses, they're so stinkin' quiet.

[nursecindy]

I looked up the average cost of a new Prius in 2007 and it was $28,000. So 28,000 x 298= (carry the one) around 8.3 million dollars. Pocket change.

[Horace LaBadie]

The brakes didn't work, as we all remember, and the accelerators stuck, so they just kept on keeping on. Easy to lose them that way.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Hey, with all the geezers (not Dave) in Miami why is this a surprise? Haven't well all misplaced our car keys at one time or another?

ANyone? Bueller?

[Not My Usual Alias]

Looking at one of the car pricing sites, they could pretty reliably get about $20K for each one -- potentially less since they would be artificially flooding the market with a particular year and condition.

Can't say if they would get a fleet rate on a popular model. If they sold as surplus the unused vehicles, the net loss would be about 140 teachers.

[funny man]

Considering the caliber of the elected, I'm sure they were safely parked at the short term lot at the
airport, which means $25 a day X 298 vehicles x 5 years or a bonus $13 million dollar parking bill.

Government. Inaction. Bozos.

[Clankie]

Electric cars... Just think of all the energy they saved !

[Guin]

They were actually in Montpelier.

[Steve]

I now drive a Hyundai so small that it is lost behind anything much bigger than a postage stamp. So I can understand.
Good drive and great gas milage, but tiny.
I was in Gatlinburg last weekend and had very little trouble finding a parking space.

[Omniskeptic]

The caliber of the elected in FL seems to be about .25 ACP, far as I can tell.

[Jeff Cokenour]

I bought one for my wife and she's almost run me over twice - you can't hear it! If they were driven below 20 mph, you can't really blame them for the loss - who can keep track of a car they can't hear?