Maybe it's time for a hybrid

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[ultimatebob]

Distance to Empty: 71 Miles!
LOL, 2 Gal. gas?
You'll be lucky if you get 50K miles before your fuel pump burns up if you keep that up.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I always fill up before I get down to 1/4 tank.
Fuel pumps are expensive and too darned hard to change!

Bah... I run my tank until the gauge says that it's empty, and I have 80,000 miles on my original fuel pump.

The MINI is a weird little car, though... even when the gauge says that it's empty, it still has 1 1/2 gallons in the tank.

 

[skyking]

I just got the best tank yet on my Dodge diesel truck. 22 MPG, mostly of highway but also about 30 miles of gravel roads up in the woods, 20 MPH average.
Not too shabby for 7000 pound truck plus a 1000 pound load over a 4500 ft mountain pass and back.

 

[bobdole369]

Hybrids are fairly bad for the enviornment, and battery longevity is a little bit of an issue too. Plus - if you do a lot of highway driving - it ain't that great.

I'm in the market for a little diesel turbo like a golf TDI or even an old mercedes (nonturbo). 45mpg baby.

 

[amdhunter]

Pfft. I am averaging single digit MPG. And I love it.

 

[zerocool84]

Hybrids are fairly bad for the enviornment, and battery longevity is a little bit of an issue too. Plus - if you do a lot of highway driving - it ain't that great.

I'm in the market for a little diesel turbo like a golf TDI or even an old mercedes (nonturbo). 45mpg baby.

A new Golf TDI msrp is ~23k which is too damn much for a Golf. Should just get something like a Focus if you want to save money since they get great mpg and are cheap.

 

[HAL9000]

Polo Blue Motion - 75mpg no crappy hybrid.

 

[ponyo]

11mpg is respectable.

 

[HAL9000]

11mpg is respectable.

 

[zerocool84]

Polo Blue Motion - 75mpg no crappy hybrid.

First of all, normal people aka People living in the USA cannot get that car. Second, mpg units over there are different than over here.

 

[HAL9000]

First of all, normal people aka People living in the USA cannot get that car. Second, mpg units over there are different than over here.

First of all Normal people != people living in the USA. Secondly, there must be cars in the USA that do better than the awful MPG in this thread. Thirdly it can't be that different.

 

[zerocool84]

First of all Normal people != people living in the USA. Secondly, there must be cars in the USA that do better than the awful MPG in this thread. Thirdly it can't be that different.

You're British, normal to you is still having a monarchy and allowing squatters to steal homes.

 

[ponyo]

My DD gets worse.

 

[HAL9000]

You're British, normal to you is still having a monarchy and allowing squatters to steal homes.

So you've never been to England then?

Edit: I've just looked it up and 11USAMPG is 13UKMPG.

It's not that difference and it's incredibly low.

 

[HAL9000]

My DD gets worse.

DD?

 

[ponyo]

DD?

old Dodge cargo van. It's rated slightly higher but I do majority city driving and do virtually zero maintenance on the vehicle. Yet it won't die. Luckily it has 32 gallon tank so I don't have to fill up as often.

 

[HAL9000]

old Dodge cargo van. It's rated slightly higher but I do majority city driving and do virtually zero maintenance on the vehicle. Yet it won't die. Luckily it has 32 gallon tank so I don't have to fill up as often.

Wow dude you should get something with a proper fuel consumption, think of the children.

That being said I was asking what DD stood for?

 

[Zebo]

Do the math...usually an econojob like a fiesta will do you better than hybrid when you figure in retail vs retail and battery replacement. I'd never do a hybrid just based on more that could go wrong but I worked it one time with an ecco vs prius and it took 400,000 miles to balance not including batteries.

 

[SolMiester]

100km/10 litres in my Super6...which is around 23.52mpg

 

[ponyo]

Wow dude you should get something with a proper fuel consumption, think of the children.

That being said I was asking what DD stood for?

fuel consumption is mostly non-issue. Ability to get work done efficiently, comfortably, and reliably trumps all. That vehicle has earned millions $$ and paid for everything. I'm very fond of it.

DD= daily driver.

 

[HAL9000]

fuel consumption is mostly non-issue. Ability to get work done efficiently, comfortably, and reliably trumps all. That vehicle has earned millions $$ and paid for everything. I'm very fond of it.

DD= daily driver.

Yeah but the environment! D:

 

[bobdole369]

A new Golf TDI msrp is ~23k which is too damn much for a Golf. Should just get something like a Focus if you want to save money since they get great mpg and are cheap.

Nah would never buy new. Think 1980's (I know TDI hadn't been marketed then, but not that difficult to weld up a little turbo and match an exhaust manifold to pep up an 84 rabbit) Oh yeah and it has to be diesel. Will never have a car here anymore that isn't diesel, and standard. God I hate gasoline engines. I hate automatic transmissions just as much.

Secondly, there must be cars in the USA that do better than the awful MPG in this thread.

Again - neckbeard is just fucking wrong. There aren't. You'd think so because - well its horrible what we get - but we don't/can't/love our horrid gas mileage.

 

[Numenorean]

Distance to Empty: 71 Miles!
LOL, 2 Gal. gas?
You'll be lucky if you get 50K miles before your fuel pump burns up if you keep that up.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I always fill up before I get down to 1/4 tank.
Fuel pumps are expensive and too darned hard to change!

Maybe you just don't know how fuel pumps work.

 

[Barfo]

 

[Evadman]

Way better than the 5.5-6 MPG I get. Quit whining.