I wouldn't reply to this normally, since I'm living in a God-Free zone, but I just have to point out that the performance of my 10 year old Starlet compared quite favorably to what's promised from the Prius. I paid $800.00 cash and would have driven it for more than one year, (it was so easy to repair that even the average monkey had a chance to not screw it up), if it hadn't been totaled in a losing argument with a bridge abutment during a snow storm. It also wasn't that dirty due to it's low fuel usage, (I was averaging about 48mpg in mixed driving weighted about 65 highway, 35 city), and in fact produced less CO2 simply because it burned less fuel, (yes it probably had higher NOX, CO and unburned Hydrocarbon emissions though probably not that much higher).
Tom C wrote: > Well sure that is progress, but it's done somewhat at the expense of comfort > and performance. While there's nothing wrong with either of those and I'm > sure the Prius is a great vehicle and possibly the best mass-marketed green > vehicle, I think far more could be accomplished in the way of reducing > overall consumption. > > Comparing the Prius to the vehicles produced 15 - 30 years ago on the > comfort/performance scale is skewing things a little. The > comfort/perfromance of those older vehicles was acceptable to the purchasers > and they got close to the same mpg. > > On the 1/10 emissions, I agree that's important. > > Tom C. > > > >> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? >> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:40:50 -0800 >> >> Yes, it is, but with 1/10 the toxic emissions output and double the >> performance. >> Yes, that's progress. >> >> G >> >> On Dec 28, 2006, at 8:22 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> >>> Gee, the average mileage is almost as good as I was getting with my >>> purely gasoline powered Toyota Starlet in mixed driving over the year >>> that I owned it. Ah, progress. >>> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > > -- -- The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
