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- Nathrat, on 01/12/2009, -28/+71exterior is still fugly.
- BrettFromTibet, on 01/12/2009, -5/+40Hopefully 50 mpg will become a new yardstick of fuel efficiency that all automakers aim for...
- skellener, on 01/12/2009, -1/+32Yes, that is correct. However, that's also without all the creature comforts like A/C, etc..and it would never pass the safety tests of 2009 (no airbags, crumple zones, etc.). In comparison to Civics of today, it was a lightweight shell. A "relative" death trap if you will.
- DeskFlyer, on 01/13/2009, -9/+342009 VW Jetta TDI matches that and it isn't even a hybrid.
- TheBlueVulcan, on 01/13/2009, -8/+30Bah, my Geo could do this nearly 20 years ago.
- AmyVernon, on 01/12/2009, -2/+22wow. Nice.
- psibladeZX, on 01/12/2009, -7/+26It's ridiculously expensive... I bet if they made a diesel prius they could get 75mph out of it too... 50mph still not worth the price premium
- Czaja, on 01/13/2009, -0/+16So every 74 miles you stop to drink a gallon of gas? I can see you're saving money with your mode of transportation but I'm quite sure you'll have extensive medical fees, though I'm no doctor.
Also, what's your 0-60? - trafficlight, on 01/13/2009, -2/+18No it's not. Hypermilers are a bunch of *****. I hate following the guy who drives 15 mph no matter what. Even if it's on the highway. Or doesn't bother to come to a complete stop anywhere. Or has that bumper sticker on the back of his car that says "I drive like an ***** because I want to save $2 dollars worth of gas."
- rotundo, on 01/13/2009, -6/+21Absolutely love the look. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
- fefu, on 01/12/2009, -4/+19Bigger and more powerful? Just think of the gas mileage it could get if it just stayed small - 60, 70, 80 mpg? What's the deal with needing big cars? I just don't get it.
- SRSco, on 01/13/2009, -6/+21I think they're nice looking.
- adventflux, on 01/13/2009, -1/+15...mpg
- MaxxusFlamus, on 01/13/2009, -2/+16What the hell is wrong with all you people.
Considering the other design toyota has, I'm pretty damn sure they know how to design a car. But when you walk up to them and say, I want this car to get 50mpg on gasoline and electric, you gotta start thinking past pure aesthetics and start thinking form follows function.
Would they have wanted different cues? I'm sure.
But what makes a bigger splash?
Being the first car to break the 50mpg avg
or
Being just another model year continuation that gets 45mpg as opposed to 44mpg. - kiwininja, on 01/13/2009, -3/+16Why the hell is Toyota putting the gauge cluster in the middle of the dash? The gauges should be infront of the driver.
- Warden72, on 01/13/2009, -7/+20And the Geo Metro and Honda CRX HF could manage 55+ MPG over 15 years ago. Not impressed.
- kendawg, on 01/13/2009, -1/+14It does? I see 40mpg on the VW site... am I missing something?
- ryan83189, on 01/13/2009, -1/+13Everyone else drives them, so you need one if you don't want to die in an accident. I was driving the other day and noticed many of the suv bumpers were at my window level. I would be toast in a tbone or head on. I try to be a good, considerate and very defensive driver, but I am no match for some 20 something mom not paying attention, with a cell phone permanently attached to her ear driving a tank on wheels with all of the crumble zones 2 foot above mine.
- Munky88, on 01/13/2009, -1/+13Also to note is that MPG was measured differently in the 1980s.
- viol999, on 01/12/2009, -9/+21The Honda civic in the 1980's got better mileage I believe.And it was one of the cheapest cars to buy.
- squelched, on 01/13/2009, -0/+10and the 20 something soccer mom thinks she is a great addition to society and that raising her kids is a top priority... WRONG more like gas wasting, over polluting, over populating and worse than any drunk driver when she is on that cell phone!
- carterx, on 01/13/2009, -0/+8We all know gas will be going back up, so this would be nice to have.
- WhoDoneIt, on 01/13/2009, -1/+9Breaks 50mpg AND mirrors all at the same time.
- BloodWenis, on 01/13/2009, -0/+8I don't know about his 0-60 time but his emissions are ***** horrible!!
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+9still depends on how you drive it, which most people still drive like ***** so it'll get nowhere close to 50mpg
- desken, on 01/12/2009, -14/+22The Prius is an engineering triumph, now if it could just get some looks we can all start driving one.
- Gareth321, on 01/13/2009, -0/+8My right ***** that what?
- jasmus, on 01/13/2009, -0/+7then falls apart at 104km/h
then takes 16 hours to charge.
and doesn't handle very well.
looks nice though. - Wrangler76, on 01/13/2009, -1/+8You've got to hand it to them. It looks like they've improved everything with this model. The interior looks fantastic. The exterior looks much better. It's faster, roomier and manages to pull this off with better fuel efficiency.
- thelastcivilian, on 01/13/2009, -3/+10Meh, that's nothing. I get 74 MPG when I walk.
- TheBlueVulcan, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6Yes I do realize that, hence why I didn't state that. I don't own it anymore, and I'm certainly not a "Geo" fan (if there ever was one). My point is that this industry has been going backwards since those days and that some companies had been striving for great fuel efficiency decades ago.
As long as one considers a car to merely be something that gets you from Point A to Point B, 50mpg is old news. - harvinator24, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6You talk like the ignorant SUV fools, who thought that gas would never go up again after the 70s gas crisis.
- pitchblack16, on 01/12/2009, -7/+13That's the price you gotta pay to save the environment....ya your right ***** that.
- freakstyle571, on 01/13/2009, -1/+7"the recognizable personal branding status associated with being a Prius driver."
Smugness? - rainx5, on 01/13/2009, -1/+7I gotta mention the 1984 Ford Escort (Diesel). Similarly not much to look at, but it got the 50 MPG-job done... a quarter friggin century ago!
- JAWS, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6Sadly, that's rather ***** mileage still. That's like settling for urine to drink after you've been in the desert because it's wet. We should push manufacturers to pop 75 by combining diesel engines with the hybrid electronics. No crazy-leaps forward in science needed - the technology's all there, it just means that we, as North Americans have to get over our fear of clean diesel.
- Jacare, on 01/13/2009, -1/+6kendawg: if your looking on VW.com then yes, you are missing something, America seems to think diesel is communist or something so practically every VW vehicle that was originally designed to use a diesel motor has a petrol motor in it instead(in the case of the jetta its a lesser quality diesel motor but that just got here, it's been in European model for YEARS). if you go to one of the European or the British website you can find the proper vehicles that VW offers and after converting the jetta 1.9 TDI 105 PS DPF's mpg to US mpg you wind up with around 50mpg combined. petrol is no where near as efficient as diesel, never has been, never will be and VW is the king of small efficient diesel cars. case en point the VW polo 1.4 TDI 80PS DPF, which top gear put through real world testing and came out with an average of 80mpg(67-70 US mpg) and here's the real kicker...it costs £7,000 less than a Prius.
- apache2, on 01/13/2009, -4/+9Nice [try].
There are diesel cars in Europe that reach 75+ MPG.
For any of you who watched one of the latest Top Gears you know what I'm talking about. Even the jaguar they tested got something like 40-50 MPG. -- And none of the cars they tested were hybrids.
Why can't we get these cars in the USA? - Ninh, on 01/12/2009, -5/+1050 mpg under what usage patterns? Starbucks and back on battery? On long distance and highway drives several models from Volkswagen are both more economic and much less detrimental to the environment to build - which is often overlooked when hyping hybrids that require exotic materials for their battery packs and do lots of shipping around the world to get them assembled.
- MasterChi, on 01/13/2009, -0/+5It only took it 4 to 5 years of stagnating on MPG to finally increase and it only increased...3 or 4%. Pitiful.
- SpeedyG, on 01/13/2009, -0/+50-60 depends on how big the hill is and how willing I am to roll down it. =D
And he didn't specify that he needed a gallon of gas. I can think of another liquid, but you should never drink and walk. - Barackalypse, on 01/13/2009, -1/+6That's nice, but the new Honda Insight will cost several thousand dollars less, and Wired.com achieved 65.6 mpg with their Insight in Econ Mode:
http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/news/2009/01/ ... - sweetl, on 01/13/2009, -1/+6im sorry but the prius is a waste of space. get a diesel and be done with it.
my mk3 golf tdi which has 208,000 miles on the clock achieves 500+ miles to every single tank of diesel...regardless how or where i drive, pulls better than any prius, and doesnt have harmful and wasteful batteries and battery chemicals to worry about.
the mk3 has a 50 litre tank (i think) which means that driving a modified car that looks good and drives nice, with a (big) stereo on that saps up my consumption, without even a concern to driving it conservatively, achieves 38.4 mpg combined, every time i put diesel in it. now, like i say, it has 208k on it.... and its an old style turbo diesel. incidentally, i did a lot of motorway driving on one tank, and achieved almost 600 miles to a tank.
the facts that Jacare posted just concern themselves with the vw diesels (and hes absolutely correct btw), but hondas diesels are amazing too. quite frankly, hybrids are pointless. go watch the last top gear episode where the hydrogen celled toyota is discussed... then you'll see the pointlessness of a prius.
you know when the mk4 gti was out, you could get a mk4 gtTDi? it was a 150bhp diesel engine, and outperformed the gti in standard form. not only that, it out performed most other cars in its niche in the real world. nothing pulls like a td... especially not while achieving the economy it does. a friend drove his gtTDi to germany, got all the way there, and two thirds of the way back... on one tank.
unkoboy... no, just no. if it was a honda, id say you have a case. since its not, you dont... (see above!) - rotundo, on 01/13/2009, -3/+8I like the look, and so do the people that buy it. I guess you're not the target market or something.
- EtherGnat, on 01/13/2009, -2/+7Wait... how is an 8mpg increase in fuel economy while the car has gotten larger and more powerful a joke again?
- Calculon, on 01/13/2009, -1/+6Umm, my 2007 Prius will easily get 55+ mpg if i don't drive like 75 mph.
- theghoul, on 01/13/2009, -4/+9Geez, I'm all for hybrids, but do they have to look like that?!? Style please?
Its gotta a big butt. - ctrlfreak13, on 01/13/2009, -0/+5And it also didn't have most of the safety systems modern cars do. Or the luxuries that have become standard in modern cars. All of those greatly increase weight, which greatly decreases efficiency.
- turbodigg, on 01/13/2009, -2/+7the funny thing is that tdi volkswagens have been getting better mileage for ages, but no one seems to care..
- jasmus, on 01/13/2009, -0/+5Anyone see the most recent season of top gear, the econodrive? 3 already available diesels that got about 75mpg.
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