Hybrids - its a tax thing not an mpg thing isn't it?
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Roo said:
Every hybrid owner I've met has bought it because it's cheap to run and reliable.
Just to add Ive been a Toyota Salesman for over 9 years (selling Gen 2/3 Prius, Prius +, Prius plug-in, Auris and Yairs Hybrid) and virtually all I can remember have bought for the following reasons:Pretty good on fuel
£0 (or low) road tax
Long warranty
Reliable
It's a simple as that.
Save Ferris said:
Just to add Ive been a Toyota Salesman for over 9 years (selling Gen 2/3 Prius, Prius +, Prius plug-in, Auris and Yairs Hybrid) and virtually all I can remember have bought for the following reasons:
Pretty good on fuel
£0 (or low) road tax
Long warranty
Reliable
It's a simple as that.
Whilst of course I hold car salesmen in the utmost esteem, I’m sure the subliminal vibes a customer exudes as they wistfully fondle the Hybrid badge whilst drifting into a comforting association with Prius owning Leonardo DiCaprio and the thought of engaging in intellectual banter at dinner parties about environmental responsibilities intermingled with high brow explanations about CVT planetary gear systems is not really going to be registered. Pretty good on fuel
£0 (or low) road tax
Long warranty
Reliable
It's a simple as that.
Technomatt said:
Dave200 said:
Technomatt said:
Hybrids. Not all wrong but equally not that unqualified best solution many just automatically assume here.
Quite literally nobody in this thread has said anything of the sort. At all. I'd love to see the quotes you attribute to that.If this is what you are so annoyed about, then you can leave the thread satisfied that you dispelled that particular myth, and won that argument. Go you.
I was quite enjoying the first few pages of this thread, before your verbal diarrhoea spoiled it.
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Blasted summer holidays... they always bring out the hard of thinking.
Technomatt said:
Save Ferris said:
Just to add Ive been a Toyota Salesman for over 9 years (selling Gen 2/3 Prius, Prius +, Prius plug-in, Auris and Yairs Hybrid) and virtually all I can remember have bought for the following reasons:
Pretty good on fuel
£0 (or low) road tax
Long warranty
Reliable
It's a simple as that.
Whilst of course I hold car salesmen in the utmost esteem, I’m sure the subliminal vibes a customer exudes as they wistfully fondle the Hybrid badge whilst drifting into a comforting association with Prius owning Leonardo DiCaprio and the thought of engaging in intellectual banter at dinner parties about environmental responsibilities intermingled with high brow explanations about CVT planetary gear systems is not really going to be registered. Pretty good on fuel
£0 (or low) road tax
Long warranty
Reliable
It's a simple as that.
People buy hybrids because they're cheap to run and maintain. That's it. They don't give a monkeys about image or the perceived green credentials.
They just want to know how much it costs to run. Which for the size and spec of the car is very little.
braddo said:
KTF said:
braddo said:
So why are increasing numbers of minicab drivers choosing to run a Prius?
Lots of shuffling forward in the ranks to get to the front of the queue, plenty of stop start in town centres, etc. Ideal hybrid territory when you have to pay your own fuel bills.Indeed,
but it seems Technomatt is blind/deaf to this economic reality.Technomatt said:
Well I scoured the city yesterday and eventually found a Prius taxi dude as the sun was setting......... and he said he only runs one because he couldn't afford a Merc diesel and the Prius was dirt cheap seconhand.
At which point you screamed at him while ranting something about drive beltsPrimary reason for most hybrid sales is going to be tax. Particularly the bigger cars like the Cayenne, Panemera, S Class, 7er and RR hybrids.
In the UK, it means people living in central London can drive around day to day in a nice, expensive Porsche or BMW, but avoid ludicrously high tax and congestion charges (remember a lot of business people don't just throw money away, but are actually quite shrewd!).
In China, where import car duty is based on engine size, it means a huge proportion of people can suddenly afford a luxury European car when they couldn't before.
In the UK, it means people living in central London can drive around day to day in a nice, expensive Porsche or BMW, but avoid ludicrously high tax and congestion charges (remember a lot of business people don't just throw money away, but are actually quite shrewd!).
In China, where import car duty is based on engine size, it means a huge proportion of people can suddenly afford a luxury European car when they couldn't before.
Technomatt said:
Well I scoured the city yesterday and eventually found a Prius taxi dude as the sun was setting......... and he said he only runs one because he couldn't afford a Merc diesel and the Prius was dirt cheap seconhand.
A fair whack of taxis around here are either a Prius or a Camry Hybrid.Technomatt said:
Whilst of course I hold car salesmen in the utmost esteem, I’m sure the subliminal vibes a customer exudes as they wistfully fondle the Hybrid badge whilst drifting into a comforting association with Prius owning Leonardo DiCaprio and the thought of engaging in intellectual banter at dinner parties about environmental responsibilities intermingled with high brow explanations about CVT planetary gear systems is not really going to be registered.
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