Custom Prius

Taste is so subjective and, it seems, sometimes so rare. So I’ll refrain from commenting on this and leave it you, my astute reader, to form your own opinions.

Extreme Toyota Prius

From Wired.com‘s report…

No one makes a body kit for the Prius, so they used one for the Volvo XC90. They ditched the back doors and swapped the fronts for a pair that open like a knife. The back window went in the trash and the side windows were reshaped. There’s a carbon fiber wind splitter under the front bumper and under the door sills. The rear end got a carbon fiber venturi. The car rides on an air suspension and 20-inch wheels brought to a halt with over-sized front brakes.

A body that wild needs an interior to match, so Haeggblom and Kyrk gave it a custom dashboard and a center console, racing seats and a 4,400-watt stereo system measured on the Richter scale. They managed to squeeze five subwoofers, eight speakers and almost a quarter mile of audio cable into the car and still found room for 15 LCD screens and a tablet PC with wireless internet access. Four batteries keep it all going.

Oh, did I mention that these mods cost more than $180,000? That’s what the article claimed. Frankly, as much as I love my Prius, for that money I can buy (almost) two Tesla Roadsters.