Bob I couldn't help but notice that you left my car out of your discussion. If you look at our database you will see that Toyota's EPA figures are inflated much higher than Honda's. The Insights (MT followed by the CVT at a distant second) and manual tranny Civic take the top 3 mpg spots. All the Honda's are getting very close to their EPA ratings. The Prius is not even close! Using EPA City (instead of a combined figure) is even more misleading.

According to EPA city the Prius2 gets 60mpg city but in real life the Prius2 only gets 47.5mpg combined from our database, a 26% exaggeration!

By comparison my car is rated 46mpg city but in real life gets 48.3 combined from our database, a full 5% more than EPA city.

The Prius is a fantastic car but it does not walk on water and it does not get 60 mpg in the hands of most drivers.