30th Apr 2007, 09:02
No not really. Unless you wanna drive about 15 mph under the speed limit at all times. It may bet a bit better as your car breaks in, but my 2006 with 20k miles on it still only manages about 45.5 MPG and actually gets worse with city driving even though toyota claims otherwise. The prius is deffinitely not all it should have been.
29th May 2007, 23:55
Sorry to say you got stiffed by Toyota thinking you bought a car with great mpg. But in a country full of 15 mpg SUVs 40+ mpg is considered great, but in the rest of the world any small or compact car is a 40+ mpg car. It does not even need to be a diesel. My mothers Polo does about 50 mpg and that's the gas version at not the 70 mpg diesel version.
30th Apr 2007, 05:18
Yep, buy a diesel. Quicker, cheaper to buy & run, better looking (whatever it is) & you won't have people laughing at your choice of car.