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Old 01-01-2011, 03:00 PM   #47 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
It is very strange, then, that I never observe this in the real world. The Insight is supposed to do 0-60 in 10-11 sec, yet when I'm at a red light next to one of these things, when it turns green, somehow I seem to be a hundred yards down the road before the behemoth has crossed the intersection - and that's without me even trying!
That's because people look at the sticker and say, "Oh, 21 mpg! That's reasonable." Then after the first fill-up they have to adjust their driving because they're seeing single digits in the real world.
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