Hi Rigger:

Can’t wait. Other options?

___Take note of the Buick LeSabre? 100% MAX A/C, loaded with luggage and people and climbing into and out of Yosemite, into and out of downtown San Francisco, into Sausalito and back at Rush across the GG bridge, hours long traffic jams at Tejon pass (I think that is what it was called?) and into Hoover Dam, hour + drive down the Vegas Strip over ~ 3 + miles, and one of those wonderful LA county jams on the way out. Notice what that hulk in those conditions achieved? The HCH is worth far more then a mediocre 40 mpg in just about any condition I can imagine. All but maybe 5 – 10 minute drives in 0 degree temps and I even achieved EPA highway results in the Insight doing 1 and 2 mile loops from cold around my subdivision throughout the winter!

___Simply giving up or accepting mediocrity is as close to Blasphemy as one could imagine given a hybrid’s actual capabilities

___Good Luck

___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Waynegerdes@earthlink.net