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If you're using the car for city commuting and aren't interested in carrying more than one passenger and a couple of bags of groceries, I'd suggest a Gen-1 Insight over any make of the newer hybrids. Designers have had to vanilla the hybrids down over the years, as they're actually trying to SELL some of them now, rather than just fulfill a certain percentage for the government.
I'm really not doing anything special driving mine other than watching the instant mpg readout and trying to cruise at 100 mpg. I mean, I AM trying to get the max mpgs out of it I can, but I don't have a grill block, belly pan, mirror or wiper deletes, etc . . . it's straight up bone stock (for now). And I don't P&G, or EOC in it, I just drive it like it was meant to be driven.
My commute is right through downtown Lakeland Florida, then a straight stretch of about five miles, so it's over half stop-and-start.
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