Prius C Saves Gas -- BOGUS

I've noticed that my Prius is saving me a lot less gas as well. When I had my Civic hybrid, my wife hated it and never cared to drive it or ride in it. Now that I have the Prius, it gets 10+ mpg more than my Civic, but my wife keeps stealing my car and I am stuck driving her Kia Forte Koup which only gets about 28 mpg. I'm starting to sense a disturbance in the force.

 

It's a disease I tell you.
You have been bitten by the Hybrid Bug.
I'm about to trade in my Elantra and it's only 2 years old.
The replacement for IT probably won't be another Pruis though.

 

Man, that is harsh. What did you do ?

 

Put a "For Sale - CHEAP!" sign on the Kia.

YES!
That's part of it, but there's also a Scrappy-Do thing going on with some of the high priests and priestesses of hybridom.
Add a dash of elitism and a pinch of automotive Napoleonic complex and....well....there you go.

I've noticed over the last few years that Prius drivers are getting to be more mainstream and the Bigger Battery crowd (EV/PHEVs) are now the ones screaming for attention and attacking all criticisms---real and imagined.

Next decade it will be the Solar-cars that are calling those crazy battery luggers "Luddites."


........and so it goes.

 

Definition of LUDDITE: one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change.
Merriam-Webster

There's even a mention of the Prius in this article :
"We try to simplify our lives by shopping at the local farmers market—then haul our organic arugula home in a Prius."
What the Luddites Really Fought Against | History | Smithsonian

 

I drive a 2012 Prius C Two moonglow. I drive a low speeds most of the time. My total MPG with 2,665 miles on the odometer is slightly over 62.1 MPG. I love my little car and it is fun to drive. I think the engineers at TOYOTA have designed a fantastic automobile!

 

Yeah, I bought mine about a month ago and have already driven 3,000 miles? What gives?? Went to Kentucky (Mammoth Cave), Back and forth to D.C. from Baltimore a few times....btw, Sitting in traffic in D.C. is SOOOO relaxing in the Prius C., I love traffic jams now - lol. Then there is the required random driving to no place in particular to figure out how to save more gas. Love the OP BTW

 

Yeah, I bought mine about a month ago and have already driven 3,000 miles? What gives?? Went to Kentucky (Mammoth Cave), Back and forth to D.C. from Baltimore a few times....btw, Sitting in traffic in D.C. is SOOOO relaxing in the Prius C., I love traffic jams now - lol. Then there is the required random driving to no place in particular to figure out how to save more gas. Love the OP BTW

 

My story? I sold a great little Suzuki VStom 650 (60 MPG) bike to buy the C. Love the C2 that I bought, even like the interstate driving (47.8mpg at 72 mph)...so what happens, my wife took the car away from me.....in love with the thing...and I am stuck with a 250cc "minibike" that I picked up for $650 (72mpg), the Harley guys give me a lot of trouble now, the old bike was faster than them, this one, not so much.

 

I don't drive extra, and it is saving me gas

 

I ride a '02 Concours