25 Car With Mpg Good As Hybrids

[jack black]

Originally Posted by roxy1

I took a trip to Ann Arbor and back yesterday.

cargo: Me (220 lbs), Dad (185 lbs), 2 dogs (90 lbs), misc (30 lbs)

182 miles each way

going: U.S. highway-45-62 mph with a scattering of small towns to drive through. moderately hilly.

return: I-94 most of the way. 65-75 mph for about 80% of the return. the rest rural.

364 miles driven. 8.12 gallons used. 44.8 mpg's. dash computer showed 45.1, so pretty accurate.

the interstate on the way home drug it down, as the mpg reading going there was 48.8.

hyvrid schmybrid!!

You must be a very accomplished hypermiller.
Yaris real life MPG is mid to high 30's:
http://www.fuelly.com/car/toyota/yaris

On the other hand, Prius averages 47 MPG in real life:
http://www.fuelly.com/car/toyota/prius

If you drove a Prius with your hypermilling skills, you would get 60 MPG easily.

I'm not even going to get to the argument that Yaris is subcompact while Prius is midsize.