It has beautiful lines and very clean design. As far as color goes I’m sure it would be offered in more than just one. I’m not a fan of tangerine either.

I saw it in person yesterday at the auto show and I fell in love with it. If it goes to market I am seriously considering it as my next car. It does look like a Lotus and condensed Viper but it all works. The proportions are perfect. This car is a head turner and for all the right reasons.

I think Chrysler is doing a good job. Although it’s a concept vehicle it is a 100% working car unlike many of the other concept cars you see at the auto show.

I like the design of the car but not sure how practical they are.

Yes, correct. With one exception. I can do nothing about the tax, but I can ride the upturn with options or futures and make money from the rising price of gas/oil. The tax is just a burden, I’ll never get that money back. The govt. gets to keep and do with it what they please.

Nice firefly ref.

As for fuel taxes, why do we piss and moan over a proposed 50-cent gas tax while swallowing the load from the speculators and oil companies without complaint? Exxon gets windfall profits, and we just pay what they ask.

On the other hand, if Chrysler were to make the Dodge Circuit afordable and on the principles of Total Quality, I would buy this baby….Hey I am a Seventies Man.

I really like the way this car looks!!!

I don’t know about you, but I’m taxed to death already. If you want to legislate better fuel economy, beat up the car companies. Now there’s some pork, and we’re going to have to bail them out? Jeez, they’re losing money partly because of those great pensions the unions forced on the manufacturers. All these people retiring and the mfgs. have to pay them to do nothing. Now that’s a burden not many businesses can withstand. Guess who’s going to pay that pension deal now?

But don’t raise my tax on gasoline because of the mfgs. inability to produce fuel efficient cars. I can’t even afford to buy a new car (not that I’d want to). The depreciation alone when you drive it off the lot is enough incentive to look for a 2 year old.

From your own post, you are not against new taxes, but rather are against tax revenue being misspent. It is a crying shame “fraud and abuse” were not a line item in the budget. Even then, it would probably withstand assault by civic minded altruists.

Money is fungible. It hardly matters at all what any specific revenue source is for any tax dollar spent. Money is like that.

But additional taxes for fuel only makes sense. As Misanthro Scott posts here much better than I, the true cost of gasoline is currently subsidized. The “real” cost can only be captured by the taxman. But forget that.

After raising revenue, the chief purpose of the tax code is to encourage/discourage certain behaviors. Providing the least impactful way to encourage the “free” (ie currently secretly subsidized) market system to adopt/transition to green energy can be assured thru a small at first but growing additional tax to be spent as determined.

A general tax to make carbon fuel more expensive and allowing the market to find the best alternatives is FAR FAR better than the government trying to select the winning strategies==so far a subsidy on THE WORSE CHOICE THAT COULD BE MADE: Bio fuels from food stocks.

No, Bubba–go ahead and hate taxes, we all do, but look to the stars for any reasonable alternative==don’t hold your breath.

http://dailytech.com/2010+Toyota+Prius+Officially+Unveiled/article13920.htm

What would be the purpose of such a tax? Why, I guess you could hire some more fine folks to work for the government to administer it. Then what?

Dang, the tax is already outrageous! Especially considering the current condition of the Interstate system.

Some facts: As of October 1, 2008:

* The nationwide average tax on gasoline is 48.4 cents per gallon as of October 2008, down 1 cent from July 2008.
* The nationwide average tax on motor diesel fuel is 53.6, a decrease of 2.8 cents from the July 2008 study.

Let’s see, half a buck per gallon times 390 million gallons/day, hmm. That’s an insane amount of money already. Good Grief, Charlie Brown!

Tell you what. You figure out how much you want the tax increased and send that “pocket change” to me every time you fill up. I’m sure I can put it to good use.