The Boston Globe on the Prius love:
Then there’s the hipness factor: ”I’ve had a lot of kids tell me that this is way cool,” she says, ”and at age 52, I have very few ways to be way cool.” When she first started driving the old Prius, it was, she says, ”a guy magnet.” For a certain type of guy, anyway. ”I would go out, and guys in Subaru Outbacks with Greenpeace stickers and L.L. Bean shirts would come over,” she says.