VentureForth
Engineer
Stop putting facts in the way of my emotions. But if you want to go further in this, AVERAGE MPG's between a 2002 Saturn SL 5-sp has a user reported HIGH of 43 MPG vs a user reported LOW of 32 MPG for a 2005 Prius.How do you figure that?My 2002 Saturn 5-speed gas guzzler was more efficient than the 2014 Prius. It only cost me $10k brand new and I wasn't offered any tax breaks.Mmmm, not exactly. The 2007 Prius is actually more fuel efficient than the 2014 Prius. It's true that people have been switching from gas guzzlers to efficient cars, but within each class of car, improvement has been pretty small.
Here's a link to the official fuel consumption rates for all 2002 Saturns http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymake/Saturn2002.shtml . None of them are higher than 29 MPG. The 2014 Prius gets a combined 50 MPG.
My point was poorly put that I could get 40 MPG out of my $10,000 Saturn which was pretty dang good compared to the intial cost with subsidies of cars that got nominally higher MPG.
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