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Originally Posted by kaisen
What are you talking about? Low-mpg Prius? Planned scrapyard by design?
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Low-mpg Prius?: The Prius was originally advertised with, um, misleading mpg figures. Heck, I'm witness to a Saturn sedan and a Geo Metro getting 50-55mpg.
Bad marketing-no croissant!
IMO, the Honda Insight starts to get decent milage and shows what hybrid technowlogy can actually acheive 100 years after it's inception. Consumers have been getting acceleration and heavy saftey features over milage for a long time.
That being said, the Prius has proven to be a good all-around design for family commuters.
Planned scrapyard by design: This goes back to GM's Intercity Lines buying up trolleys and burning them in a pile. It goes back to it's corruption of Ovtronics NiMH patents and suing Panasonic which started selling EV-sized batteries. It goes back to the EV-1 debacle and the film "Who killed the electric vehicle."
You can Google those terms and decide for yourself how well "GM" and "Environment" have related to each other in the past.
Fool me once, well, you'll never fool me again.