Quote:
|
Originally Posted by CGameProgrammer
But for whatever reason, the values for this car do indeed appear realistic. Road & Track test-drove a Camry Hybrid and they got 38.3 mpg going "75-80 miles per hour mountaineering around LA" (i.e. lots of climbs, up to over 4200 feet from sea level). Motorweek test-drove the car and the averaged 38 mpg though they didn't say what types of driving they put it through.
|
i'm confused. the question that was asked by kenny is: do you believe the tch will actually get even 38mpg highway let alone the fantastical claim of 60mpg that you got? are you saying that the epa is
underestimating the mpg of the tch?? this would be incredible given that the epa tests are always
overestimated when it comes to hybrids and especially so on toyota's hybrid synergy drive.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by CGameProgrammer
Similarly, my 2006 HCH gets 60 mpg cruising on level roads around 60 miles per hour, despite its EPA score of 51 mpg highway.
|
let's say you're right and the epa estimates are underestimating mpg for hybrids. the hch.ii delta between epa 51mpg and your 60mpg is 15%. the tch delta between epa 38mpg and your 60mpg claim is nearly 40%. that's a huge difference that can't be explained away by real world numbers from databases like this one. this database and most others show that epa estimates for ima are generally closer than epa estimates for toyota's hybrid synergy drive.
correct me if i'm wrong here kenny on your question...