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Originally Posted by Daox
If you're doing mostly city driving I'd go with a Prius. HSD is quite a bit superior to IMA in the city. You can find the first gens for a few thousand dollars around here. An Insight can probably keep up with the Prius MPG wise, but it'll be more work.
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Doesn't the Prius allow for partial electric-only drive? If so it makes sense then. That would also allow me to do a plug in conversion for a little more electric-only range and maybe even add some solar cells to the roof for charging during the day.
I always found the Insight I to be sort of cool for being a no-compromise solution to fuel efficiency. If the Prius I makes more sense though I will start shopping for one of those instead.
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(Note: the car sees 100% city driving and is EPA rated at 37 mpg city)