My new car...

[Shomegrown]

but driving short trips, her mileage is just as good as her husbands V8 Ram.

Not trying to get too far off topic, but that's her driving and not the car (unless the car has a major major problem).

[86ZX-Turbo]

[QUOTE=pgtfreak]Hybrids only get their totally super-duper awesome mileage, on long ass trips. I work with someone with a Honda Insight. She gets great MPG on the way to work (she lives an hour north), but driving short trips, her mileage is just as good as her husbands V8 Ram.
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not to sound critical or anything but this makes no sense to me. a Hybrid, by definition, should receive most of its gas savings while in stop and go enviroments like traffic and city driving. How? a hybrids gas engine shuts off at stops and uses battery power to intially get going. a regular gas engine will keep idling/stay running no matter what. a hybrid engine also uses its gas engine 100% of the time when its cruising on the highway. it gets no benefit from the batteries when cruising like that. I just dont see how you can calculate a small hybrid engine getting the same mileage as a V8 truck on short trips.

[pgtfreak]

I didn't calculate crap, it's what she told me

[anomaly]

All one color, no gawdy wing, neon lighting, or fart can...

Nice!

[Snorb93GT]

not to sound critical or anything but this makes no sense to me. a Hybrid, by definition, should receive most of its gas savings while in stop and go enviroments like traffic and city driving. How? a hybrids gas engine shuts off at stops and uses battery power to intially get going. a regular gas engine will keep idling/stay running no matter what. a hybrid engine also uses its gas engine 100% of the time when its cruising on the highway. it gets no benefit from the batteries when cruising like that. I just dont see how you can calculate a small hybrid engine getting the same mileage as a V8 truck on short trips.

Correct.

However, Hondas hybrids are not full hybrids, they are regarded as mild hybrids. A mild hybrid will have the gasoline engine running all the time, even with the electric.

A full hybrid, like the Toyota Prius, will actually shut off the gas engine like you are talking about and run on the electric motor. Hence the reason why the Prius gets 60mpg in the city, and 51mpg on the highway.

[supergoat]

extar

extAr!!!!!!

Nice daily driver.

[Jerry Rhodes]

extAr!!!!!!

Nice daily driver.

I must have been on that..... hehe

[blackpgt1994]

i bet the engine bay in that thing is dirty than your PGT's

[Jerry Rhodes]

i bet the engine bay in that thing is dirty than your PGT's

I have to say the factory did a pretty good job....almost as good as mine

[iain]

my sis has a blue '04, and i enjoy it quite a bit when i go home. nice pick up

[compJTC]

eh, it should be pretty reliable, so you can't go too wrong

[Jerry Rhodes]

Who says they can't keep there daily driven family car looking clean? Almost 10 years old.

[pgt4speed]

Looking Good, but that is to be expected