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instarx · 12-05-2009, 07:58 AM

I'm no GM fan, but what's with all this "GM, the Great Satan"? Remember, they did tell you which model Prius they tested, and they didn't have to do that. When doing comparisons on anything, cars to apples, it is necessary to control as many variables as possible, so comparing a Prius with 17" wheels with a Volt with 17" wheels is actually more experimentally correct than deceitful. They compared cars that were as alike as possible and that is the way it has to be done for the results to have any validity at all.

Some of you are actually to the point of making things up out of thin air about how they "probably" fudged the results.

12-05-2009, 07:58 AM	#25 (permalink)
instarx EcoModding Dilatant Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: NC Posts: 262 Volvo - '00 Volvo V70 XC AWD SE 90 day: 27.7 mpg (US) Thanks: 4 Thanked 27 Times in 17 Posts	I'm no GM fan, but what's with all this "GM, the Great Satan"? Remember, they did tell you which model Prius they tested, and they didn't have to do that. When doing comparisons on anything, cars to apples, it is necessary to control as many variables as possible, so comparing a Prius with 17" wheels with a Volt with 17" wheels is actually more experimentally correct than deceitful. They compared cars that were as alike as possible and that is the way it has to be done for the results to have any validity at all. Some of you are actually to the point of making things up out of thin air about how they "probably" fudged the results.