In article ws.net,
Doctor Evil wrote:
They may be, but are not representative of real life driving.

They are.

You don't know much about cars either then?

And given just how poor the Prius turned
out to be,

The latest Prius is an amazing success. It doesn't have a gearbox, just
one plaetary gear assembly.

Which is a gearbox. You really don't understand technical terms, do you?

Many other makers have liceneced the Toyota
drivetrain.

Licences are taken out on all sorts of things, but get no further than
that.

one can only assume the software

Don't assume, you don't know.

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.

Autocar got 55mpg in London,. Now repeat that 10 times. And mine? About
48-50mpg. And a dream to drive.

The one you 'own' is in your mind only, as so much else. Seek treatment
for this need to tell lies.

Very few cars will be used only for out of town journeys, most cars
will be urban/combined.

Yup. Autocar have a test route designed
to simulate this and put every car
they test over it. The Prius still did badly -
considering its claims.

Stop making things up.

It's all there in black and white. Easy for anyone to check - unlike some
of your wilder claims.

The overall MPG was appalling. Beaten by every other similar size and
performance diesel.

This is no way to save the planet. It's simply a way of making a low
pollution car for town centres where real problems are - like LA etc.

But overall, a waste of effort. Designed to fool the easily lead, like
yourself, who doesn't understand figures.

How's your 1 hp central heating programmer motor, btw? Shouldn't you have
changed it for something more efficient?

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