Honda Car Forum

In alt.autos.toyota Joseph Oberlander <josephoberlander@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Richard Schumacher wrote:
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>> Joseph Oberlander wrote:
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>>>GRL wrote:
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>>>>RX330, you mean. Not bad for a 3.3 L V6 hybrid. These things may end up
>>>>killing the market for V8's.
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>>>Well - it has the pulling power of a V12 in electric mode off the
>>>line up to about 20-25mph, when the engine has revved up to do
>>>the rest. Nice design, if a bit inefficient.
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>>>Turns out Honda's hybrid system gets much better mileage than
>>>Toyotas in real world testing - go fig.
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>> "Much better"? Motor Trend's 1 year 17,000 mile test of a 5-speed manual
>> 2002 Civic hybrid yielded 39 MPG overall versus the low 40s reported by most
>> Prius drivers. See
>> <http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/alternative/112_0306_up_honda/>
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> What about the Insight?
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> Of course, the second highest was for a "lowly" Golf TDI. Go fig.
> Way better mileage than the Prius.

Now you are comparing three different classes of cars. That makes
no sense. Shell made a 1 seater that gets hundreds of miles per gallon,
but that, too is in a different class.


The Prius does a wonderful job for it's owners, as does the Honda. There's
no reason to make up bad things about either of them.

Daniel