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JacobLeSann · 06-15-2021, 10:04 AM

I’m window shopping for and daydreaming about cars on Kijiji yet again. I want to get extreme MPG and will modify a car heavily to do so. Wanted a TDI but don’t like the maintenance costs, plus people sell ones with more than 400k km on the odometer for $3000+ which is absurd to me. My other idea is to get a bone stock ‘93 Civic CX hatch I’ve found and mod it out.

Then again, I’ve started seeing some pretty good Gen 2 Priuses(Prii?), and I’d like to know what I should expect for MPG if I were to get one. My commute is more than 75% highway, and most of my travels are on the highway as well. A highway-focused machine is best for me. I’ve read that hybrids aren’t very useful on the highway and something like a TDI is better suited for high speed fuel efficiency. Is that the case? As far as I can tell, Prius Gen 2 owners manage 45-50MPG on the highway, which doesn’t amaze me.

A battery replacement probably helps these quite a bit, right? Definitely far from being a new car.

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JacobLeSann Master EcoModder Join Date: Nov 2020 Location: The Pas, Manitoba Posts: 319 Thanks: 427 Thanked 145 Times in 112 Posts	Priuses(?) on the Highway I’m window shopping for and daydreaming about cars on Kijiji yet again. I want to get extreme MPG and will modify a car heavily to do so. Wanted a TDI but don’t like the maintenance costs, plus people sell ones with more than 400k km on the odometer for $3000+ which is absurd to me. My other idea is to get a bone stock ‘93 Civic CX hatch I’ve found and mod it out. Then again, I’ve started seeing some pretty good Gen 2 Priuses(Prii?), and I’d like to know what I should expect for MPG if I were to get one. My commute is more than 75% highway, and most of my travels are on the highway as well. A highway-focused machine is best for me. I’ve read that hybrids aren’t very useful on the highway and something like a TDI is better suited for high speed fuel efficiency. Is that the case? As far as I can tell, Prius Gen 2 owners manage 45-50MPG on the highway, which doesn’t amaze me. A battery replacement probably helps these quite a bit, right? Definitely far from being a new car.