Should it be a Prius?

[papercutout]

Boring, boring cars. Booner on here gets to drive one as a company car occasionally and aside from trashing it around and still getting 40mpg, it's got no entertainment value. I think we averaged 55mpg across 80 miles sat at about 60mph along the motorway, so IMO the MPG doesn't really go up exponentially. My dads 307 TDi will sit at 60mpg+ at 60mph on the motorway.

Depends what she wants.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

How do the CO2 outputs differ?

This is the important part for OEMs in 2012.

I think its 103 rather than 117?? Missed a trick there along with the insight in light of new congestion charge rules (sub 100g). That said the hybrid is then also the most powerful variant and still retains the magic seats.

 

[dannyjo22]

Plus the price is not far off the normal retail of the standard car. I'm definately going to try one out but for about 10mpg it doesn't seem worth it. As I say my mrs always does over 50mpg with the 1.4 petrol and never has climate control off.

I'm not even sure the hybrid has climate control.

In fact if the Jazz took more than a thimble full of fuel to fill the tank I'd use it over my 1.9tdi for my commute as the mpg isn't miles apart, but I'd hate having to stop twice for fuel in a shift.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

Its too new to be worth it anyway second hand Civic hybrid is an often overlooked option, probably something in its favour compared to the Prius.

 

[dannyjo22]

Oh yeah her current Jazz is only 12 months old, I wouldn't look at trading that in for a new hybrid anyway. Maybe next year on a pre-registered one

 

[atpbx]

My Mrs always hits atleast 50mpg on her Jazz in petrol, it's so good on fuel around town I really don't know why they bothered with the new hybrid.



What the new Jazz hybrid?

I'm interested in taking one out just out of curiousity to see how it is.

No the 1.3 insight IMA thing.

I didnt even know there was a hybrid jazz.
It could be the best car ever made for all I know.

*edit* no, apparently thats terrible as well according to reviews.

 

[dannyjo22]

The reviews I saw still rated it but said it was pointless because the average Jazz owners yearly mileage was about 6k or something low like that.

The other minuses I've seen for the car are present in the petrol models as well and it doesn't stop that selling well.

 

[Jonny69]

second hand Civic hybrid is an often overlooked option

I'd forgotten about that. Just had a scout about and the prices seem to vary wildly for some reason. Can't work out what's a good price and what smells a bit fishy...

 

[Jonny69]

Been thinking about it and basically all journeys we do have 45 minutes or more of stop-start town work before we reach a motorway. This is where it would be a benefit, then if it does anything over 45mpg on the motorway we're way quids in compared to the old Renault. They seem to be able to do over 50mpg on petrol in real life which is as good as any diesel. I'm afraid I don't believe the 60mpg stories yet - we tend to go down to Le Mans in reasonably new diesels and none of them have eever managed to crack more than high-40's to low-50's on the way there which is mainly motorway with no hold-ups. Even the Bluemotion Golf we brought back last year only managed mid-40's and I was really taking it smoothly to see what it could do.