Canadian Driver Review of the Altima Hybrid - GreenHybrid

Ormond · #1 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 01:44 PM

http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jm/07altimah.htm

Not only is it a good review, but the photography on this site is superior.

gumby · #2 (**permalink**) 06-26-2007, 06:47 PM

I agree - nicely done article. And good pictures of the Altima Hybrid.

teiresias · #3 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 07:30 AM

Nice to see the following in the article:

Quote:

The key to any hybrid, no matter who makes it, is that you're going to have to adjust your driving habits to the car. It's the only way you're going to get back the car's price-tag premium in your fuel savings: the Hybrid is $2,800 more than the priciest conventional Altima, and even at a buck-plus a litre, that's a lot of gas. If you expect the car to just save you fuel by its nature, without putting any effort of your own into it, you're going to be disappointed.

(And if you do put the effort into it, you'll very quickly notice that the vast majority of people drive as if gasoline still costs 40 cents a litre. While I can be just as guilty at the best of times, I wonder how many hybrid/E85/hydrogen cars we'd really need if people simply drove their current vehicles more fuel-efficiently.)

Something you never see from something like Consumer Reports, which seems happy to just test everything like everyone drives as if they're racing from stoplight to stoplight instead of trying to educate the probably hybrid-ignorant reader on how increase not only a hybrid's FE, but they're current vehicles FE as well.

Tim A · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 11:00 AM

Soooooooo, does this Knuckle-head leave the keys in all of his cars?

OMG.......

"the Altima was sitting in my driveway running.
I'd forgotten to hit the stop button, which shuts off not the engine, but all of the car's electrical systems. When it got dark, the automatic headlights came on, and when they'd sufficiently weakened the battery, the engine started up to recharge it. If I hadn't noticed it, it might have run all night. "

Ed_T · #5 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 08:59 AM

Didnt' teh car beep at him when he left it (assuming the fob was on him)?