Hybrids? Are you kidding? Now you have two drive trains to maintain. The conventional gas or diesel system, and the electric one. Such a deal! Can you imagine troubleshooting one of these cars? And the repair costs? Nobody talks about that. And the high income Hollywierd types that promote them can easily afford them. I'll take the Passat any day over any hybrid vehicle. An alternative fuel vehicle as well, way ahead of it's time. TEMiller Mad and Ed wrote: > HA! I knew it! The NPR story quoted - was Car & Driver? that the best > they were able to get with the Prius they had on trial was 42mpg! I > can do better than that in my Passat (47mpg clean, hiway). I can get > 32 in the Vanagon ( tailwind). > > They did say though that there was less variability between "city" and > hiway miles, this due to the regenerative braking. > Now if I could get a Hybrid Tdi......... > > Edward Lowe > Seattle, WA > 82 Westy Diesel upgraded to 1.9lt. Turbo > 85 Golf Diesel 1.6lt NA > 92 Cabrio 1.8lt gas > 97 Passat Tdi > > |
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