"Studies show the average driver only gets 75 percent or so of the mileage figures that are on the sticker " So how many average driver drive hybrids? I know I'm not your average driver; they would be the people I pass everyday on the way to work. Being rated at 48 with the CVT and getting 45 that comes out to about 93% without even trying to maximize it. Who are these editors and how hard do they beat these test vehicles? And what’s wrong here “comparing a Civic Hybrid with a higher-priced, up level Civic EX … Thus, buyers of the Hybrid would need to travel 144,000 miles—about 9.5 years at the 15,000-mile-a-year national average rate—to recoup the approximately $2,000 price difference in these cars” if the EX was higher-priced why the 2000 price difference?