Prius Drivers: Big car drivers are ugly

 

1. It’s not surprising that the mileage figures for the Prius are so-so on the highway. The Prius needs to lug around a couple hundred pounds of generator, batteries, and electric motor that a conventional car doesn’t need. On the highway, this is so much dead weight.

   The only area a hybrid will excel in is in-ciry driving, with lots of stops and starts, where the regenerative brakes can charge up the battery and re-use the energy normally wasted in braking.

   I’m waiting to see what screams of outrage arise when the earlier Priuses’ battery packs start to fail form old age, and their owners discover that replacements cost more than the resale price of the car.

   Posted by Chuck Kuecker       08/25/2008  at  12:53 PM  



2. As far as the mythical “carbon footprint” goes, if it gets better mileage, it has smaller feet.

   Posted by Chuck Kuecker       08/25/2008  at  03:17 PM  



3. I used to drive some of the VW diesels from the 80’s.  40-50 mpg, depending on the model.  Of course the carbon cloud would drive an ecofreak nuts.  Heh.  The turbo diesel didn’t blow smoke as bad.

   Posted by John C       08/25/2008  at  07:09 PM  



4. Have you seen the UK program “Top Gear” when they had a Prius going round a test track a few time and followed it in a BMW M3, yes you are right, the BMW was slightly better, I have a 2.5 litre turbo diesel with 145k on the clock, 40 mpg on a fast run (80-90) and round the Cornish lanes 35 mpg, in the unlikely event I drove as slow as the pius I would expect significantly better for mine. As for the carbon deposits, they dont affect unicorns, sorry I mean the other mythical invention, global changing. Also what utter idiot thought it was smart to convert CO and make our engines less efficient, to produce lots of extra CO2???

   Posted by Chris Edwards       08/26/2008  at  02:43 PM  

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