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Old 11-07-2012, 01:08 AM   #42 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by payne171 View Post
Rooster, you are also unfairly generalizing mild hybrids. To this day, no car has exceeded the fuel economy of a first generation Honda Insight without plug-in capability, and the Civic Hybrid is still just about the only car whose fuel savings actually justify the purchase of a hybrid over the course of a normal auto loan.
I hate the Honda Civic because it's not so roomy at the back seat and the trunk is too small.


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If HOVs are going to allow special access beyond carpoolers, it should be for a certain fuel or efficiency mark, not for a certain technology, if they have them at all.
That would be the obvious, but politicians always wanna try to reinvent the wheel...
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