tebore wrote: ↑Who keeps recommending a GM Midsized V6 is daft. The best you could possibly squeeze out of it would be 32-34MPG(US) using crazy eco driving skills. In the city forget about it.
How can you even compare that to ~40 MPG of a used Diesel on any given day? Push 40+MPG if you eco drive it.
Hybrids are city cars that's plain and simple. On the highway they're terrible choices. If you do nothing but run around in the city Hybrids are great.
Yes new gas Compacts are approaching the MPGs of diesels. But they haven't achieved or surpassed the diesel of the same vintage. You have diesels approaching 50-60mpg. Not to mention the torque. I'd also take a VW and it's comforts over a Civic eco anyday if i had to drive 150km/day.
He's right, the EPA rating for the 3.6L is 29 mpg (US) highway:
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do? ... 1&id=31375
BTW, the newer hybrids (Fusion/CMAX/Kia/Hyundai) can run in battery mode at highway speeds, so they can do better than their straight gas cousins whereas older hybrids (Camry/Prius/older Fusion) can't past about 60 km/hr