Hybrid Cars' Fantasy Mileage Ratings Drive Into the Sunset

Wired | 05.14.07 | John Gartner

[antiRepublicrat]

Wired can't be posted or even excerpted since they're idiots who don't understand copyright and fair use. See original.

[kinoxi]

Toyota’s been exaggerating (lying) about gas mileage and horsepower for years now. They are the worst offender but it sells vehicles.

[null and void]

Wired can't be posted or even excerpted since they're idiots who don't understand copyright and fair use. See original.

OTOH, they do seem to understand hits...

[T.Smith]

I like how they threw the Hummer on there for comparitive purposes. My Silverado gets the same mileage, but I don’t care. It terrorizes Priuses!!

[P-40]

You have to read the assumptions behind the mileage figures and drive according to those assumptions. Buyers tend to do neither.

[DeFault User]

Strange, we have an ‘07 Civic that gets the 30/40/33 previously advertised, no correction needed.

[Oberon]

Wow. VW had a diesel Golf that beat the pants off these numbers back in 1985.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Drive a 2000 Nissan frontier with a 4 banger that gets 33-34 mpg combined. Sheesh...

[kinoxi]

Civic?

[MplsSteve]

A Yugo (if there are any still on the road) could terrorize a Prius!

[kinoxi]

Good gas mileage.

[agere_contra]

This is confusing. I hate to say anything for Buraq Obama, but these look like the MPG figures he was quoting for Japanese cars. And I quote:

“I’m not sure where he got that figure,” Toyota spokesman Mike Michels said. “No carmaker gets 45 mpg. Ours is closer to 30 mpg.”

What am I missing? Something pretty damn obvious I bet.

[Monterrosa-24]

My ‘04 Saturn Vue has the 2200 4-cyl. engine with a five speed manual and it gets better milage than the posted MPG for the Hybrid Vue. Remember one still pays more upfront for a Hybrid.

[zeugma]

Why send them hits?

[DeFault User]

Yes 4 door Civic LX. I’ll admit that it gets 40mpg on the highway when my wife drives it. When I’m driving, it drops to 36-37 (my foot is a bit heavier). If it were to get less than 30 in normal driving, we’d think something is wrong.

[11th Commandment]

if you have a hybrid- buy a plug in kit. Then you will be very happy.

[P-40]

The Volkswagon Diesel TDIs do really well also...even if you drive them pretty hard.

[kinoxi]

I’d like to have something a little smaller I just don’t trust the idiots on the road enough to not hit me...

[xcamel]

Wired can't be posted or even excerpted since they're liberal whiny panties-in-a-bunch narcissistic self-effacing psudo-geek idiots who don't understand copyright and fair use. See original.

There, fixed it.

[TZolf]

Toyota had nothing to do with the old numbers, it was the old EPA testing guidelines. EPA rated mileage testing is standard for all manufacturers, so that they all use the same testing guidelines. The old guidelines weren’t very realistic, however, leading to inflated numbers over what most drivers would normally see.