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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
Compared to the other cars I would have purchased instead, the 86 is my Prius, and I have told people that. It gets about twice the mileage of any other car I would considered owning as a DD.
Not to pick on you @ NOHOME but I'm not sure I understand why its not possible to enjoy a sports car and be concerned with its fuel usage. They are not mutually exclusive. I track MPG as a measurement of "health". The fact that I average over 32MPG in almost 60K miles of driving is amazing to me. I would have never expected that, particularly given I in no form, manner shape or function come close to a hypermiler (if that's the right term).
Mind you, I don't race it on a track every day, or sit in city traffic, which I would expect to drag it down, but I am always the first off the light (sorry for the disbelievers but I've never been beaten by a soccer mom in a minivan) and consider every "Caution 25MPH Curve Ahead" sign as a challenge to better than double it. |
Much of what I do in life tends to be in defiance of rationality. To me, owning a sports-car flies in the face of common sense, and the concept of caring about fuel use would never enter the picture.