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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Originally posted by island911
Have you not seen the Smart cars? 70mpg for the diesel version, 67mpg for gas. I believe those both beat the best production Honda at 66.
But the point is "Hybrid" is over-rated, as it stand now. It's a bit too Rube Goldberg of a sol'n. Very costly; very system heavy (nothing to go wrong there ). . all to get to almost the same place of some single fuel cars.
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Island, get your facts right. The EPA puts out numbers on fuel economy but Consumer Reports just did a special where the actual real life fuel mileage on these hybrid cars are actually as much as 50% lower than posted. None of these cars get anywhere near 60 mpg in the real world.
My old beater Honda Accord gets 37 mpg on regular fuel. It allows me to drive a 911 when I please. Put Detroit on notice to get 30 plus mpg on most of their cars and America will not use half as much fuel every day.
The ones we need to get off of the road are the forking Hummers, SUV's, Surburban and 4 wheels jacked 4 feet higher in the air.
JoeA
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