[aerohead]

My friend Gary's Prius III has returned an average 47.5 mpg for its two years and 60,000-miles of service.Gary doesn't hypermile or anything special.
For a 4-5 passenger car this seems pretty respectable at 'real' speeds.
I'm 6'-1-1/2" and can sit comfortably in the rear seat.
A professor I know at UT Arlington has seen up 83-mpg,hypermiling to campus during light traffic.
Until all traffic signals are synchronized the hybrid technology will a consumers (and other things') friend while in the urban landscape.