Not quite _every_ way. What it's missing is "soul" (all you folks driving stock Hondas won't notice any change, har har): the howl of a GT-1-spec V8 that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, the growl of a boxer-6, the scream of a racebike at 16k RPMs, even the burble of a tuned street-V8 idling. I guess you can play pretty motor sounds from a speaker, but still, it's not the same. :)

And there really is a lot of cool engineering in modern ICEs. Some of us will miss that.

Don't get me wrong, I think something like an AWD rally car with independent electric wheel motors is going to be _fantastic_, performance-wise. But it won't have quite the same emotional pull as the old stuff.

I don't think it's applicable in the Prius case, but worth noting in general:

At WOT, the vacuum-assist for many power-assist brake systems just isn't there. You'll get one, maybe two applications from the vacuum reserve system. At that point, you have to be a little bit strong (and your seat has to be positioned properly) to generate that kind of braking force.

I'm not excusing it (your seat _should_ be positioned correctly, and you _should_ be strong enough to work the brakes without the assist), just pointing out that it's not quite that trivial.

You're not _supposed_ to use installer packages for simple self-contained apps (which Firefox is) on OS X. Drag-n-drop from a compressed DMG is the preferred way except for exceptional case that need to install frameworks or kernel extensions outside of the .app bundle.

A self-contained app can be distributed by a network admin quite simply with rsync or ARD or an Automator script or umpteen other ways that are fully automatable. People need to stop expecting Microsoft-looking "solutions" for non-Microsoft platforms.