Celebrities and Their Hybrid Cars

Many of us these days seem to be obsessed with celebrities and many want to have the lifestyle. Well the multi million dollar mansion and the spouse to die for may not be available to all of us, but there is one increasingly affordable area where we can live just like our favorite stars and that is what we drive! Formally Hollywood celebrities would never be seen in anything less than a chauffer driven limousine, but increasingly they are turning to some thing that most of us can afford, and are to be seen packing their designer shopping into their new hybrid cars.

Probably the first star to publicly endorse hybrid cars was Cameron Diaz who has for sometime been the proud owner of a Toyota Prius. She has been very good for the entire hybrid cars industry despite her original faux pas in comparing it (with the assistance of a chat show host) to a golf cart. Despite this she has been a vocal and eloquent exponent of hybrid cars and with her undoubted “green credentials” she has helped broaden the appeal of this new innovation and encouraged many whom may not have otherwise considered buying a hybrid car.

Leonardo Di Caprio is another long time enthusiast of hybrid cars, publicly stating in 2002 when many Americans were still unfamiliar with hybrid cars, that his Prius way just like any other car but he only fills it up every three weeks. Even such a seemingly innocuous mention from someone whose very word and deed is watched with anticipation by the worlds press, is enough to get hybrid cars into the minds of your average American in a way that a million dollar advertising campaign can only dream of.

Alec Baldwin likes his hybrid car for rather the opposite reason. As well as, presumably,
appreciating its environmental credentials he says he likes the anonymity that driving a small car can give. Although the list of stars choosing to drive hybrid cars is on the increase.

Larry David the writer of the hit tv comedy Seinfeld and the star of Curb Your Enthusiasm is also an enthusiastic owner of a hybrid car, or at least he was until his wife gave away his car as a prize in a sweepstake to promote the campaign to “stop Global Warming “ and didn’t mention it to him.

Tom Hanks is also a firm believer in hybrid cars, although perhaps rather unsurprisingly as he is also noted for his environmental works and concerns. He is also somewhat appropriately an active participate of the group Nature Conservancy.