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Hybrid Drivers Provide Real-World Mileage Data
The hot-selling Toyota Prius averages 48 miles per gallon among over 150 cars from across the country, with most drivers achieving between 45 and 51. The V-6 Honda Accord Hybrid delivers 30 miles per gallon while Ford's Escape Hybrid SUV averages 28. All hybrid owners are encouraged to post their data for these and other cars on the Internet's largest hybrid mileage database.
Reliable fuel economy figures are increasingly important as consumers explore their options in an emerging hybrid car market. Hybrids, like the new Lexus RX 400h, pair combustion engines with electric motors that recharge while driving to improve gas efficiency. "Until lately," said GreenHybrid creator Jason Siegel, "consumers have associated hybrid vehicles with a small niche of fuel-conscious environmentalists, but today's hybrids offer the best combination of high performance, great mileage and luxury features of any cars on the market."
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They should switch to a premium unleaded/apache method :)
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Coincidence? I think not!
People who don't want to pay MSRP + 5000, obviously.
Will it survive a collision with a SUV?
Nice.
It's tragic. Laugh.
I've driven a Cavalier, and I feel sorry for your parents. What a piece of shit. Did you even look at reviews of the car?
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Pity you didn't get a Ford, you could have been shopping for a shiny new car by Christmas.
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I think you need to run some more tests there, as you should be able to do significantly better than that.
For example, if you leave your car parked in the driveway and walk, you should get near infinite fuel efficiency at 0 kph. You only have to worry about evaporation and the natural breakdown of the fuel in your tank.
(Sorry -- the mathematician in me decided to come out and be a smart-ass. The physicist in me would like to point out the the mathematician that we can do even better by putting the car in neutral while the engine is stopped and pushing it off a cliff -- you'll get ~9.8m/s^2 of acceleration without burning any fossil fuels whatsoever! Some days I just can't help myself...).
Yaz.
Screw hybrids- just think how much gas we could save if we made all the roads downhill!
That's easy. Just go to the road between my dad's house and his school and put the car in reverse.
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Screw hybrids- just think how much gas we could save if we made all the roads downhill!
You fool. They've been working on this for YEARS. If you don't believe me, ask any old person how often they had to travel uphill back in their day. Most of them will tell you more often than not, it was uphill BOTH ways. I'm sure you've heard it. These days, on average, you usually go uphill around 50% of the time. I'd say thats a drastic improvement to our road infrastructure. It's gonna be awesome when they finish.
"Almost everyone knows you "steer into a skid" but how many people do that instinctively?"
Especially when you're driving a friend's car and all your reflexes are trained for your own front wheel drive compact.
I'm not proud of it, but by the time my brain had recalled what I learned in driver's ed about handling a skid in a rear-wheel, we were sitting in the ditch, and my girlfriend had a new embarassing story to tell her family.
Damn straight, computers suck up so much power it's ridiculous. Oops, now if you'll excuse me I have to pour another gallon of gas into my cell phone...