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dennis@home wrote:
If you look at the Prius it is obvious that it is designed to get the
most from the official test.. even the battery is designed to have just
enough capacity to complete the test.

The telling one was Autocar getting only 22 mpg over some 500 miles
including performance testing. Of course not many drive a vehicle that
hard, but even so it makes interesting comparison with other vehicles of
similar size and performance driven in the same way. All of which beat it.

Prius owners seem to quote an MPG figure based on really trying hard to
save fuel. Then use normally driven vehicles as a comparison.

Real world driving - where the two vehicles are driven the same - show the
Prius to be actually rather mediocre mpg wise - except for in heavy town
traffic. But if it *is* only meant as a town car is poorly designed for
that purpose in many other ways.

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