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Old 05-24-2006, 02:47 PM
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Default Re: Sold my '06 HCH after 12400 miles. Final thoughts...

I sold it because I was more impressed with Toyota's hybrid tech than Honda's, and I wanted something smoother, faster, and with a real electric-only mode. The Prius is worse than the Civic Hybrid in my opinion, due to things unrelated to the hybrid drive (which is excellent). So the Camry seems the best of both worlds -- it's in a less fuel-efficient class than the Civic or Prius hybrids, but it's still good and it doesn't suffer from any real drawbacks, as far as I can tell. Note that I've had it for one night only so far, so I don't want to talk about it yet.

The dealer was very greedy and irritating to work with, and I ended up trading the HCH for $18500, which wasn't even the bad part of the deal. And it was in great condition and had HOV stickers. But the dealer said they were just going to give it to a Honda dealer for them to sell, and that I believe they were being honest about, and they claimed most Honda dealers quoted $17k. Well the Honda dealers are very greedy, really horribly so, especially in the Los Angeles area, so it's probable the Honda dealers were ripping us off rather than my Toyota dealer ripping me off (as far as the trade-in is concerned).

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