"raden" wrote in message
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In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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Pete C wrote:
Unless you do mainly city driving, avoid the extravagant maker's
claims
for hybrids as regards fuel consumption and emissions. On average out
of
town journeys they're no better than a conventional petrol car.

How are they extravagant claims? They are the result of standardised
urban/combined fuel economy tests.

They may be, but are not representative of real life driving. And given
just how poor the Prius turned out to be, one can only assume the
software
etc was tweaked for optimum results *for these tests* Otherwise, how do
you explain an overall figure of 23 MPG in an Autocar test? No other car
I
can find is so far away from the 'official' figures.

It goes to show, his Prius is just an imaginary one

Maxie, you are right, Mr Cranium does imagine things. Wild things as well.