25 Car With Mpg Good As Hybrids

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Originally Posted by jack black

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.

No, he is not an idiot that pretends he is drag racing like most people. That is all it really takes in the Yaris.

And yes, the Prius barely fits into the midsize category only because they made it as open as possible. It is still on the smaller size of the midsize spectrum, and unless you do a ton of city driving and drive to get the best gas mileage, as you might do, it isn't worth it. But hey, you want to use the masses to judge fuel economy? Fine. fuelly gets 47. Which is absolutely pathetic. The last time I actually had to drive on a freeway, I did that in my Yaris.

Now let's actually be honest here. The Prius and the Yaris are cross shopped. The main reason to by both is because of gas mileage. I looked at both before I bought my Yaris in may of 2006. I, like many on here went with the Yaris because the extra gas mileage simply was not going to make up the price differential short of $8 a gallon gas. And since you like fuelly so much, here is mine.

I almost never do anything like freeway style driving to boost that number up, the closest I get is state highways with tons of lights, cars stopping to take turns, and the like. And unlike most hypermilers, I use my cruise as much as possible, I very rarely drive to endanger like they do, about the only thing I do is drive the actual posted speed limit, and not act like a dumb ass drag racer.