Originally Posted by pasadena_commut

Let's see how much you drive if that would only save you 100 euro a month. In most of Europe gas is around $7/gallon, euro is 1.15 dollars, hybrid avg mpg ~40, conventional ~25. Let X = miles driven per month: 115=7X/25 - 7X/40 => X = (115*40*25)/(7*15) => X = 1095 (miles). Pretty average for the US, not sure about where you are. If you drove twice that much the hybrid might be a win, even with the expensive repairs.

Do you live in a region where the little turbo diesels are still allowed? Those get pretty good MPG and so long as your country doesn't ban them it might make economic sense to drive one. The regulatory uncertainty should have driven their prices way down over the last year or so.

As for back seat leg room, well, I can sit relatively comfortably in the back of my 2003 Civic, but I am only 5'8" and I would not want to spend hours there. The back seat in the one Prius cab I took had more leg space. My neighbor has a Fiat 500, and the back seat only looks suitable for small children or maybe a cat.

Originally Posted by Neroon

I get that in the US repair costs are important, and sure they are here as well, but gas is so expensive here, whereas repairs are about the same, we in fact require less repairs due to high quality roads.

Originally Posted by pasadena_commut

The biggest variable I think would be the cost of a replacement IMA battery. Bumblebee here sells them for around $2200 (have not checked the price in a while), who sells them in Europe and at what price? You do NOT want to buy one from Honda.