Thread: Hybrid cars what to look for.

Yep, I did get that but in practice there isn't much difference in usability for us. I test drove a Prius (I know, I know) and a Honda mumble (might have been an Insight? Memory is murky on it. Civic sized sedan anyway) and both of them did the same - as soon as you're over 70-odd k's on open road combined power in use. If you're doing that for 90%+ of the trip you literally aren't saving enough fuel to make the extra consumables and higher purchase cost stack up.

If you are urban and the engine is off for say more than 60% of your trip, that potentially is a saving worth having. But otherwise, as XR500 says the hybrid systems on open road use are generally not saving you anything as the IC engine is turning and burning and anytime that is happening you aren't saving fuel.