While I didn't buy my Boxster S for its mileage, I was pleasantly surprised at the mileage I got last month on a 560 mile round trip to Traverse City - @28.6 MPG averaging 65-75MPH with the top up.
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: Toyota hybrid-electric drive system > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:06:05PM -0600, William Robb wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mark Roberts" >> Subject: Re: OT: Toyota hybrid-electric drive system >> >> >> > Kenneth Waller wrote: >> > >> >>Mark, as you're probably aware, the mileage you can expect with a >> >>hybrid is >> >>very dependent upon your driving cycle, (city/highway) among other >> >>things. >> >>If your 65 mile commute is mostly highway you will not see the kick in >> >>mileage that the hybrids are noted for. The extra cost of a hybrid >> >>would go >> >>a long way to pay for your yearly fuel bill. >> > >> > Well, it certainly gets better highway mileage (~50 hwy) than what I'm >> > driving now (~33). And I'm really concerned with reducing my >> > consumption of petroleum as much as the cost of it. We're probably >> > going to spend about $24,000 no matter *what* kind of car we get, so >> > there really is no extra cost for us. >> > >> > By Tuesday my current 50 mpg vehicle should be on the road, too :) >> >> We've made two round trips to Calgary in my wife's Nissan X-Trail. it >> seems to get something close to 40mp(imperial)g travelling at 110kph. >> Quite amazing actually. >> My truck more than makes up for it. >> >> William Robb > > While my current vehicle seems to be averaging around 23 mpg, that's > still better than a 50% improvement over the car it replaced. And > my wife gets better than that in her Mini, which does 3 or 4 times > the number of miles per week. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
