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Land Rover has a real opportunity here. Land Rover Hybrid Engine = win? Because I can guarantee there won't be a single person in the armed forces happy about driving around in a Prius instead of a Jeep or a Defender...

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They could've just bough V6 diesel Jaguars. As Jeremy demonstrated, it's the second most fuel efficient car in the world.

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Why not go for a BMW? I know it's not British, but TG already proved its more fuel efficient than the Toyota. I'd also like to add the Hilux is a good idea incase there is severe flooding as we had last year, Toybota anyone?

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Forget that Jaguar XF how to arrive in british style

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NO NO NO NO!! The Prius IS NOT GREEN!! It's just a smug hybrid, the face of all naiive, two-faced, expensive, slow, I'm-green-on-the-face-of-it-but-actually-really-dirty snotboxes! I hate it so much! You could power it purely with the light shining out it's ( usually it's owner's) arse! There are better, greener cars out there, yet everyone defaults to a Bloody Prius. Is it too late to buy Mini Es with solar-panelled roofs for them instead? (even) That would be greener, and Minis are built in Oxford, arguably the British-est place in GB.

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I wouldn't mind if the greens actually gave any acknowledgement to the fact that all car manufacturers have been trying to 'do their bit'. They seem hellbent on cars being evil, whilst overlooking that modern day hatchbacks actually produce less CO2 per kilometre than the amount of CO2 produced making just two bags of crisps. Or that humans produce more than four times the amount of CO2 compared to vehicles just in respiration alone. And until they start demonstrating evidence of them actually knowing what they're talking about, I will continue to consider them to be ignorant nazis.

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Why not VW Polo Bluemotion or Seat Ibiza? They're twice as fuel efficient as Prius and 10 times greener.

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I second the Hilux!! Its more military like. Imagine a bunch of SAS guys driving around in a Prius!! That would be an image disaster!

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This is a BRILLIANT plan! The Taliban will die of laughter when they hear about this! Seriously, they chose absolutely the worst car on the planet for this! There is nothing, absolutely nothing as near as embarasing to drive as a prius (well, maybe apart from a few electric powered little pieces of junk, but those can't even be called cars). It needs more fuel than an ordinary diesel, looks terrible and is just so insanely idiotic!

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I'M SORRY, BUT IT SHOULD BE "CARBON DIOXIDE" NOT "CARBON MONOXIDE"... Carbon monoxide used to be the gas for cooking

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Yossarian, what do you think the Taliban run about in? Bentleys? No. Ladas? Possibly. I'd rather have a Pri- actually no. I'd rather walk.

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Haha, at first I thought, why would you need a Prius for? Unless the enemy (whoever that is) has CO2-detecting-homing-hellfire rockets. Which would render a Challenger tank (and Landies) useless... Good excuse... I mean, what's wrong with the Land Rovers they're using right now? I bet its way more useful then whatever Prius can do...

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Mikeado, A Lada is way cooler than a prius, at least in my opinion. It may be terribly built and slow, but at least it doesn't make you look like an eco-idiot.

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The Lada suffers the same problem as the old Rover SD-1. It was slow partly because the metal used was fairly thick and therefore fairly heavy. But it's better than those Kleenex Boxes that Toyota makes!

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Indeed. I'm still walking instead.

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I cannot comment on the British armed forces, (indeed I dare not) but apparently the US military is not only the greatest producer of CO2 in the US but is also the biggest consumer of bio-fuels. However as a military vehicle the Toytown Pompous... sorry Toyota Prius is utterly useless. One blast from an EMP transmitter and all its lecky bits are toast. It's about as much use to the Army as the Mini Moke.

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^ It's not for the battlefield. It's more like a 'Company car'

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