w1ld wrote:
] ] Hybrid cars are hot, but not as hot as their owners, who
] ] complain that their gas mileage hasn't come close to
] ] well-advertised estimates.
] ]
] ] Today's the Day. Pete Blackshaw was so excited about
] ] getting a hybrid gasoline-electric car that he had his
] ] wife videotape the trip to the Honda dealership to pick
] ] up his Civic Hybrid.
] ]
] ] But after a few months of commuting to his job in
] Cincinnati,
] ] Blackshaw's hybrid euphoria vanished as his car's odometer
] ] revealed that the gas mileage he was hoping for was only a
] pipe
] ] dream. Honda's Civic Hybrid is rated by the EPA to get 47
] miles
] ] per gallon in the city, and 48 mpg on the highway. After
] nearly
] ] 1,000 miles of mostly city driving, Blackshaw was getting
] ] 31.4 mpg.

Wow my bug gets better than that :)

RE: Wired News: Hybrid Mileage Comes Up Short