Inviting every hybrid owners in Seattle to prove us wrong.

Oh, and I'm a Prius owner, and I doubt that I'd ever buy an Insight.

You need to get one of the "really good" alternators.

If you go here:

you can look up EPA and actual user mpg for most cars. Look at 2008 models to get a good population of real owners' fuel economy experiences. The most efficient cars are:

2008 Model EPA city/hwy/comb. Owner mpg (# owners) Prius 48/45/46 46.2 (104) Civic Hybrid 40/45/42 45.7 (49) Smart For2 33/41/36 38.5 (40)

So what have we learned?

1. The top hybrids both get significantly better mileage than the teeny tiny Smart car, and way better than any other gas or diesel car on the market.
2. The top hybrids both beat their EPA overall estimates, by a pretty big margin in the case of the Honda.
3. GasSaver is a lying sack of shit. No, wait. We already knew that.

Not to mention that the Smart For 2 requires premium gas.

Oh my brother, testify!

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Agreed.

These little cars will send you to cemetery quicker than you think, No protection, Too thin. Until something terrible happened first then you'll learn.

Plus, below is the thing unwise thinkers usually fall for:

"These little cars"? Your so-called credibility drops with each post you make. The Prius is _not_ a little car by any means, and it does extremely well in crash tests. Ask the SUV driver who rear-ended my car last summer how well a Prius holds up in an accident. Her SUV needed to be towed, I just needed my bumper replaced.

Maybe he meant the Smart for 2.

Well, if he meant only that one, he should have made it clear. However, from another post of his (you'll likely have read it by the time you read this post), it's clear he claims the Prius is a death trap.