Doctor Drivel ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Most reports I have read have said the ride and handling are fairly
lame.

The handling is as good as another similar sized car.

As long as that other similar sized car is another insipid generic Japanese
hatch.

The road noise is more apparent as there is alack of engine/transmision
noises, but overall far quieter than other cars.

No, it really really isn't - unless you're using the ZEV mode, the engine
noise is very intrusive. Since ZEV mode is only at very low speed, the
excessive road noise doesn't come into play at that point.

You probably just have low standards and are easily pleased.

I have very high standards that is why I went for a Prius. Seamless
progression

Umm, yes... Most cars'll do that...

and quietness.

If you're wearing earplugs.

It can keep up with other cars on acceleration and motorways too.

106mph and 10.6sec to 60. Hardly a ball of fire. Slower than a diesel
Yaris, and with official economy/emission figures not much better. Oh, and
that's before you factor in the _big_ gap between official and real-world
figures for Hybrids. Not much quicker, less economical and with almost
identical offical CO2 to a diesel C1/107/Aygo.

Brilliant and stress free around a city.

Walk, cycle or use PT, you idle ****er.

More and more hybrids are coming on to the market

Strange how few manufacturers are actually diving in there, though. Just
Honda (with the Civic which doesn't have a ZEV mode, and requires the
petrol engine to be running at all times) and Toyota have bothered in the
UK. Oh, and a bunch of 'merkins slapping it onto pickup trucks the size of
Wales.

PSA have had stop-start technology in production for a few years, but VW
had it working fine in the '80s. PSA had battery-power-boost very similar
to Honda's IMA in the mid '90s.

Yet PSA reckon that their own Pious-style hybrid (but with a diesel and
low-90g/km claimed CO2) will be several more years until it's market-ready,
and even then it won't be even vaguely profitable.