The Prius is the most powerful car I've ever owned. Takes off like a rocket if I want it to. (I got tired of that game early on... but it has the power.) It's all a matter of perspective: what your previous car was. Somehow, the idea of Mr. Bean driving a Prius gives me the heebee-jeebees. Or maybe it's just the idea of Mr. Bean driving a car at all that gives me the heebee-jeebees. You just know he's going to do something unimaginably idiotic. Something that will make your run-of-the-mill maniac driver look downright defensive.