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Originally posted by myraellen@Aug 26th 2004 @ 8:39 AM
My commute will be about 25-30 minutes all on city streets. I will be doing more highway driving on the weekends. I am known to take short road trips to distances up to 8-10 hours away, but usually stay within a 6 hour drive (so like 300 miles).
I don't know how long I want to keep the car. I've never bought a car before. That's a really good questions...I'll have to think about it a bit.
What do you mean by "drastically modify" my driving habits?
The price I was quoted was on a CVT.
I'll write more later...Thanks for the opinions!
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25-30 minutes on city streets is not the best kind of commute for an HCH....Look at the Mileage Database very closely for short commutes, and most of those people are in the lower half of the bracket.
My personal commute is short at about 7 miles, takes 10-12 minutes, and I struggle to get 42 MPG tanks, using lots of driving tricks like coasting and avoiding A/C usage and watching the real time mileage meter like a hawk. Those are the driving style modifications I was talking about. My educated guess is that after your learning curve you could get 43-47 on that short commute, which is definitely more than any non-Hybrid could get, except maybe a Jetta TDI diesel.
You will do fine with the hwy miles, and on your long drives too.
Sadly for our wallets, the Prius is preferable for the type of commute you and I do, since it uses it's electric engine more at lower speeds.
Hope this helps you....Laterz........