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[QUOTE]Originally posted by iceman302: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Adam5.0: [qb] by there design hybrids dont get as good gas mileage on the freeway. they are more effective for city driving. when they are on the freeway thats when the gas motors tend to turn on because they arent getting any energy from braking. might not be a 100% fair experiment. i am not hybrid fan either as a prius is more harmful to the environment than a hummer over the life of the vehicle [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm fully aware that a hybrid gets better city MPG's. The article even mentions that point. I've also read numerous articles comparing regular gas models to the hybrid version of the same car (like the Civic). The fact of the matter is, hybrids are not purchased for purely economic reasons. The reality is that you typically have to drive a hybrid more than 100K miles just to recover the higher cost of the initial purchase. The best hybrid, from a purely economic standpoint, is an Escape. You only have to drive it 97K miles. There are two kinds of hybrid owners... those that buy the hybrid to let everyone else know how much better they are since they're doing something for the environment (more harm than good in the end) AND those that aren't smart enough to figure out the point I made in the above paragraph and actually think they're saving money. The majority of hybrid owners fall into the first category which is exactly why the Civic hybrid sells poorly and why Honda already discontinued the Accord hybrid. People don't buy those cars because they don't look different enough for most other people to recognize it as a hybrid. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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