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Old 11-25-2005, 08:22 PM
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Default Re: "Full" vs "Mild" hybrid, the real proof.

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Originally Posted by philmcneal
just tell them that the engine used in the prius is a joke compared to honda's

and vice versa with the hybrid system. also slam in their face that you saved a couple thousand compared to what they spent, making your fuel savings "more real". And tell them you didn't have to wait **** for your car, while they went heels over toes to get their and had to pay more than MSRP price.

oh and tell them your car corners better too haha.
Vice versa with the hybrid system? I hope you mean that toyota's hybrid system itself is more robust than ours, and more effective in the long run as far as electric energy-saving techniques go. And Toyota's atkinsonized engines are technically more efficient, if not quite the highway champs that Honda's are. Though didn't i read somewhere else that Honda's new valve timing on the 06 HCH could technically be considered the Atkinson cycle?

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