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SirPeale:

--- Quote from: TOK on May 10, 2007, 09:10:06 pm ---...and any Kia.
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Ah, crap.  I'm a sissy.

ChadTower:

FWIW, it's less sissified if you're on the type of budget that makes Kia a reasonable option.

knave:
Interesting stuff ther on the hybrids TOK.  Glad I havn't bought one. (Although I still like them.)

What I want to chime in with is that it also really makes a difference how far one drives when figuring what is practical.

In my other life I'm a Jeep nut.  I have 3.  Currently my Daily driver is a 02 Wrangler with a modest lift and mud tires.  It gets crap for gas milage but I like driving it and my total commute each day is about 2 miles.  At 14 MPG with Gas at $3.25 thats ~.46¢. I can handle that.  When I go driving on the dirt then I don't care because gas is just factored in to the cost of having fun. 

TOK:

--- Quote from: Peale on May 11, 2007, 12:35:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: TOK on May 10, 2007, 09:10:06 pm ---...and any Kia.
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Ah, crap.  I'm a sissy.

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I was just breaking balls based on a setup line. Besides, you can always just say it's your sisters if anyone asks.  ;)

patrickl:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 11, 2007, 11:16:44 am ---
Don't know how many similar cars you'll find in the advertised range of the Prius for highway driving.  It's way up there in the literature.

Here is a good thread I'm poking through about the Prius and mileage.  Ridiculously long.

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Actually the mileage maybe best in highway use, but the hybrid is most effective in cutting city fuel usage. The stopping and starting is where the hybrid is best. A prius will have a reasonable mileage like 45 mpg if you drive it in the city and up to 60mpg if you drive it on the highway. While a regular car like a 1.4l Honda Civic will get 30mpg in the city and something like 50mpg on the highway.

It's maybe even easier to see with the Honda Civic 1.4l hybrid and the regular Civic 1.4. The highway mileage for the Hybrid and the regular Civic is comparable. In the City, the Hybrid uses 40% less fuel than the regular Civic.

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