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I was finally able to get a test drive in a Toyota Prius C four.
The car was driven round the lot and idled for about 20 minutes, mPG started at 8mpg and slowly moved up to 62mpg with me and my father driving 11 miles each. With a mix of City and interstate.
The amount of work to get 62mpg was a bit because I was floundering around not knowing how to drive a CVT (coming off a stick) I was trying to figure out how to pulse and glide it with some limited sucess.
The trouble I kept having was that the battery was always dead and wanted to race the engine.
The godsend was the real shifter and neutral .
Shifting to neutral kills the motor and eliminates uneccessary regen.
There would probably be a steep learning curve for me but I am very tempted by the vehicle, trouble is other members of my family would want it and I hate the toyota pricing games and unavailability of the Prius C ONE. I also am not sure how to order anything from toyota, I hate orange !
In any event the dealer was very dissapointed when I didn't take his $24k used C four and asked about the C one.
Any good dealers in Wisconsin?
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