I saw my first Prius C in the wild at
this weekend's SMCC Montreal Economy Run road rally.
It did reasonably well: 5th overall in "uncorrected" fuel economy out of 15 cars.
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1. Gas - Darin Cosgrove, 2000 Insight: 76.12 mpg.
2. Diesel - Frederic Bedard, 2005 Smart ForTwo: 73.50 mpg.
3. Gas - Mike Kamm, 1997 Geo Metro: 63.23 mpg.
4. Diesel - Marc-Andre' Lajeunesse, 2006 Smart ForTwo: 62.22 mpg.
5. Hybrid gas/electric - Mathieu Laframboise, 2012 Toypta Prius C: 58.07 mpg.
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This is an event which required fairly aggressive driving to avoid being late at the checkpoints. The Prius C team had a fairly high number of penalties for being slow though.