I work for a government agency and we have 4 or 5 HCH CVT's in our fleet and one Prius I. All other vehicles in the fleet are american made. I work for the County of Santa Barbara as a real estate appraiser for the assessor's office and when I check out a car to do some field work I usually end up with one of our Saturns that get about 33 mpg, but about 20 percent of the time, I get one of the hybrids and get between 43 to 49 mpg on them. All of my co-workers prefer the HCH to any other cars in the fleet, but it may have more to do with the fact that they are the only ones with cd players rather than the better FE.