Hearses to be made from Priuses

A limousine company in Japan plans to make hearses out of Priuses. They'll sell for $80,000. Toyota Prius Hearse

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Lobster

That actually looks kind of cool.
dole

@7: Wait ’til you see the hatchback pop up!
Anonymous

Great idea! Saves fuel for the cremation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_funeral
Anonymous

introducing the new Toyota Priapus. Made for your stiff.
maex

Try the new Prius hearse! They’re as quiet as the grave! (Sorry…I couldn’t resist.)
Anonymous

We used to call them “station wagons.”

How come everybody doesn’t get one?
Anonymous

Is the funeral industry going to make a modern swing?
Anonymous

I’m dying to get one!!!
Anonymous

Top Gear Australia explored the idea of a Smart car as a hearse. That would be good to see. I’m sure you can find it on Youtube.
Anonymous

How green is it to have one person in each car in the funeral procession?
dculberson

Tak, now that is a hearse! A Lincoln, too, which isn’t that common around here at least.
Anonymous

I wouldn’t be seen dead in one!
sworm

When driving back from the funeral you use the engine. When driving to the funeral you can use the electric engine – nice and quiet.

Nothing to do with the environment i think.
jawsy

Wouldn’t it be more eco-friendly if we just used our dead for something else? Like crackers?
Pixel

#12:

Soylent Green tastes like grampa!
Takuan

I’m SO proud of my spawn! The Issue of the Second told me the other day the plan is to take my corporeal remains, dessicate them and string them marionette style in a glass case whereby they might yet earn by having passer-bys put coins in to see the grotesque jerking and dance….sigh…. needs a good tune though…
Anonymous

Looks long enough for a long horse funeral procession. When our long horse “Stretch died, we just dug a long trench and buried him. Er, what was left after extracting the 15′ long tracts of meat.
Tdawwg

Call it the Toyota Posthumous?
Anonymous

why is it four doors?
VICTOR JIMENEZ

Looks like the longcat of the Toyotas
PaulR

Priuses?

Prii?

Any excuse to link to Wayne and Shuster:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_5h8CzRcI

At the 4:44 mark.
SeppTB

Wow what’s the 0-60 time on that thing?
joannaw

I guess it’s better than a hummer limo.
AirPillo

Longcar is long.
Bemopolis

That seems an extravagant way to carry around dead batteries.
Anonymous

WOW, what a hearse, where can I order one!!!!!!
Bevatron Repairman

If only they put the regenerative breaking to different use, we could finally get us some zombies.
David Berner

Time for a Harold and Maude remake.
Anonymous

This is an ‘eco-friendly’ .
Anonymous

Now if only we could get them to run on people, all the world’s energy problems would be solved.
Takuan

call that a hearse?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/JapaneseHearse.JPG
fisheggs

Eco minded closure!
Xander Crews

Nothing like an eco-friendly vehicle to transport your formaldehyde laden corpse into the soil…