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Originally Posted by Daox
This is the car I've been waiting for ever since it was the FT-CH concept vehicle. The numbers are in and its looking pretty good. It has a city rating of 53 mpg (highest of any non-plugin car) and 46 hwy (which is still better than my 2nd gen Prius' 45 rating which routinely gets 55 @ 60 mph in summer). Combine that with a starting price of under $19,000 and I think we have a winner.
The downsides I see are the lack of aero consideration in this car. |
Its too bad nobody wants to make a long subcompact, the main selling point of this car is the price point which is good, I just wish they would have gone for the gusto with an Insight I MPG buster, a few tweaks to the length and the rearend and Voila! 60mpg
In several years when my cobalt gets traded in this might be what I go for, trouble is I will want to mod the backend
Or if I ever find an Insight I that isn't $8k with 150k miles in wisconsin.
Anyway, does this car have real specs out yet on the motor size, final drive ratio, etc? Is it the same as a standard prius?
I wonder if altering the final drive ratio might work if they did indeed cripple the car?