Lazy comment by me and you've fact/stat'd me out
my point being that it will rarely kick in and only for a short period when driven the manner it was designed for.Cost of running a Prius
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Lazy comment by me and you've fact/stat'd me out
my point being that it will rarely kick in and only for a short period when driven the manner it was designed for.
Irrelevant, most small hatchbacks aren't marketed as cars to be driven hard, but they are marketed to new teenage drivers
I can go and get a Prius for the day and replicate it if you want... The fact is that when driven at speed (note, this does not mean driven hard) that is not consistent, the Prius rapidly turns to poor fuel economy. Try taking a prius up on mountain or moor and see what happens
Irrelevant, most small hatchbacks aren't marketed as cars to be driven hard, but they are marketed to new teenage drivers
How many teenagers do you see driving Priuses?
Depends very much on the journey, and how quickly you want to complete it. Not everyone's drive to work is trundling through town.
How many car models do you see that never get driven in a frequently changing NSL without holding up traffic?
Let's also not forget that their are other, better and cheaper, economy choices than the prius
http://www.fuel-economy.co.uk/stats.shtml
Try taking a prius up on mountain or moor and see what happens
If there was a mountain or moor in sight, your average Prius driver is more likely to be seen walking across/up it than taking their harmful emissions near mother nature
If there was a mountain or moor in sight, your average Prius driver is more likely to be seen walking across/up it than taking their harmful emissions near mother nature
I was up on Dartmoor today following a Prius being flogged through the NSL (well, until you hit a hill). I'm pretty sure they weren't getting good fuel economy by the noise it was making...
I'm aware that anecdotes aren't data, but they are enough to counter blanket assumptions...
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Does anyone else when passing a Prius drop down a couple of cogs and undo their eco-greenness?
The smiley at the end of post my indicated, do not take this without a pinch of salt.
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To be honest, I hadn't anticipated that a Prius would appeal to middle-aged boy racers. What I was really interested in was the actual servicing costs.
£4.50 if you bring your own 9V battery
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Perhaps you should concentrate on learning the difference between a donkey and a horse . . . or something?
As I said in post 13, service costs are cheap (well, cheap to average if done at Toyota) apart from battery replacement, which is not.
It's cheaper to service the prius engine than a modern common rail turbo diesel, for example (assuming same dealer network and roughly equivilent car size)
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Not everyone presses the pedal aswell.
Some drive a aerodynamic car at such a throttle load to engage the Atkinson cycle engine at something like 32% efficiency. Which is where it can be pretty competant, those conditions are narrow, but achievable. Super Highway Mode. The engine is a quirky one, 13:1 CR for a start.
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Because you cant sell them in America.
The cost of Euro 6 is gonna cripple a lot of the current diesels, hybrids are already there with the emission standard.
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Does anyone else when passing a Prius drop down a couple of cogs and undo their eco-greenness?
Yes
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Of the cars above the Prius in that list, which is a better car of similar class?