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Originally Posted by last123
Did anyone read the Car and Driver article recently about the most effecient cars on the market - it was Prius, Civic Hybrid, Echo, and Jetta TDI? There was a inset blurb in the article about diesels, commenting that the diesel driver is never bored because diesels ooze character. They ooze some other stuff too I guess, but character they never lack.
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Yes I did and was very unimpressed with the write up. I have one friend that had a Honda Hybrid, and one with a Toyota hybrid. The honda could only break 50 mpg it did 50 mph on level road, averaged about 34 over all city/highway combined. It had lots of electronic problems and left him stranded 3 times, traded it for a Golf TDI 5sp and the roads he travels have 55 mph speed limit and is averaging a steady 63-65 mpg. My neighbor's Toyota is averaging 32 mpg and his Honda regular gasser averaged 36 mpg when he traded it fo the Toyata hybrid, needless to say he is a unhappy fellow. :p We had a Toyota Echo automatic and it never got more then 40 mpg. Then I found out that it had a 10% speedometer error and figuired it never got more then 36 highway, and 30 mpg in town.
After driving the car on a 2 lane road one day and had a semi going the other direction blow me onto shoulder of the road twice in one day I told the wife to not drive it on the highway and if she needed to go out of town take by NB TDI. We eventually traded the Echo because it was always having CEL's and a/c would not get the car cool in 85* weather let alone 100* stuff we have here July & August. The '02 Jetta we traded the Echo for averages 38 to 40 in town and at 75 to 80 mph on interstate gets 46 to 48 mpg and when driven in states with 65 mph speed limit we generally get 50 to 51 MPG.
Sorry for getting so windy.
