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Old 06-14-2016, 12:30 PM   #5 (permalink)
Ecky
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My 2004 Civic Hybrid is wonderful, but the battery packs are notoriously weak. You can still drive one with a pack on the fritz, but they tend to die much more quickly in the south; heat is the enemy of batteries.

Since you've already sunk money into it, that changes the economics a bit, but I'm generally more inclined to buy a $3,000 car that needs nothing (was the price of my HCH1) than a $750 car that needs $3,000 in work.
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