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Originally Posted by pete c
Interesting thread. i'd like to add my thoughts.
Driving ANY new, or almost new, for that matter vehicle will never come close to matching the $/mile of a good, reliable old beater, assuming you have the mechanical skills and willingness to do what it takes to help it along in it's old age.
Hypermiling is a sport. Any manual transmissioned car that is OK with EOCing can have it's mileage greatly enhanced by a skilled hypermiler. A prius, with it's smarty pants drive train wants to share in the fun.
I'm selfish. I don't like to share.
Every time I read about one of you euros discussing the countless engine choices you have, I want to throttle you!!!! More accurately, I want to jump in my horrifically overpowered gasser and drive to DC and throttle everyone at EPA and NHT...NTS....uhhhh, you know, the scoundrels there in charge of making sure we only drive "safe" cars.
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Haha! got it in one I fear- I like being responsible for the better mileage
as for "us Euros", we're heavily regulated re car modigfication- A Kammback would get me Jail time.. not to mention if I was paying $4 a gallon rather than £7, I'd have a '59 chevy and a 69 dodge charger!
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Originally Posted by F8L
I disagree. Try a set of lowering springs, rear sway bar, and 17" wheels.  after that it all comes down to who has the biggest sack. lol
Whoever said you cannot hypermile a Prius obviously knows nothing about the car. You can drive it normally and as long as you avoid lots of short trips you can easily achieve EPA ratings. Drive with a bit of care or stick to the freeway at speeds below 65mph and you should have no problem getting 50-55mpg per tank. Start hypermiling and 118mpg is the limit thus far. Ecomod it and hypermile it and tell us what you get. lol
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So, pay for for mods to get tio the same setup as a stock BMW? I could drop mine 40mm, Bilstein b6 dampers and 16" wheels and be ahead again
All credit to you for the "modded "prius idea- I see from your sig you have something approaching it
Its not so much being unable to hypermile it- I imagine it can be effective as per your link-but I dont know whether the car could produce simiar results without modifications to the softwatre/hardware controlling it- I'm not too highly clued up on prius tech