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Hearses to be made from Priuses

Mark Frauenfelder at 7:10 am Wed, Jun 24, 2009

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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…