I will NEVER drive a hybrid!!!!!!
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I'll probably never buy one. My mileages aren't high enough, I suspect I'll jump straight from full ICE to full electric.
ETA: That's for the wife. I doubt I'll ever buy a modern car for me at all unless I'm forced to by a change of circumstances, I find them thoroughly uninspiring.
ETA: That's for the wife. I doubt I'll ever buy a modern car for me at all unless I'm forced to by a change of circumstances, I find them thoroughly uninspiring.
Edited by kambites on Friday 9th May 08:28
I had one as a courtesey car for a few days, and to begin with it was quite novel, but I could see how it could soon become a dull boring drive, once the novelty of the `electric' bit wore off.
The only advantage would be if having to drive into central London on a regular basis, but who in their right mind really wants to do that???
The only advantage would be if having to drive into central London on a regular basis, but who in their right mind really wants to do that???
I consider myself a proper petrolhead. 
That means I have an inborn curiosity about machinery, particularly of the four wheeled variety. I don't see cars as man-jewellery.
Therefore I wouldn't hesitate to drive anything new, novel or different, and if it meant i never had to take the car to a filling station (fuelling cars ranks with the trying on of trousers in boredom stakes) I'd have an electric city car any day.
That means I have an inborn curiosity about machinery, particularly of the four wheeled variety. I don't see cars as man-jewellery.
Therefore I wouldn't hesitate to drive anything new, novel or different, and if it meant i never had to take the car to a filling station (fuelling cars ranks with the trying on of trousers in boredom stakes) I'd have an electric city car any day.
Regardless of what I think the world is certainly moving hybrid and even full electric.
5 years ago I said I'd never buy a prius. I drove one and it only got 45mpg around town, looked terrible I assume due to the aero shape and being a toyota and was really really expensive.
Even today used prius is still more than the equivalent diesel. Therefore it is still a statement car. However I would have one now. I drove a latest gen and they make loads of sense as run abouts and commuter cars.
I drive an xfr, it's actually cheaper to buy a prius and use it for my 15k a year than to stack the miles on the xfr. I wouldn't care about car park dings or curb rash either. To a petrol head it's quite liberating having a car that costs hardly anything to run and that you don't care much for doing the bulk of the work in relative comfort allowing you to maintain a toy at the weekend.
Wether I would own one, probably not because I might skip it and go full electric at some point in the future. One things for sure I will almost certainly have a toy to drive.
5 years ago I said I'd never buy a prius. I drove one and it only got 45mpg around town, looked terrible I assume due to the aero shape and being a toyota and was really really expensive.
Even today used prius is still more than the equivalent diesel. Therefore it is still a statement car. However I would have one now. I drove a latest gen and they make loads of sense as run abouts and commuter cars.
I drive an xfr, it's actually cheaper to buy a prius and use it for my 15k a year than to stack the miles on the xfr. I wouldn't care about car park dings or curb rash either. To a petrol head it's quite liberating having a car that costs hardly anything to run and that you don't care much for doing the bulk of the work in relative comfort allowing you to maintain a toy at the weekend.
Wether I would own one, probably not because I might skip it and go full electric at some point in the future. One things for sure I will almost certainly have a toy to drive.
900T-R said:
Nowt wrong with hybrids in se, it's just that Toyota's implementation was/is totally unappealing to anyone who derives pleasure from the act of driving, though technically brilliant.
Their current ad campaign had me in stitches when I first saw it....
http://premier.toyota.co.uk/hybrid
aeropilot said:
900T-R said:
Nowt wrong with hybrids in se, it's just that Toyota's implementation was/is totally unappealing to anyone who derives pleasure from the act of driving, though technically brilliant.
Their current ad campaign had me in stitches when I first saw it....http://premier.toyota.co.uk/hybrid
Hybrids are even duller than their normal cars. Nothing fun about pudding like throttle response and very little power.
But like I said above they have a place.
aeropilot said:
Their current ad campaign had me in stitches when I first saw it....
http://premier.toyota.co.uk/hybrid
Hmmm, apparently you can sing in the car without the engine singing back at you and this is 'fun'. Mmmkay. http://premier.toyota.co.uk/hybrid
You see, I have a problem with that. Apart from the writer of that ad very obviously never having tried to merge onto a motorway with fast moving traffic in a Prius or CT200 (zzzzzz - DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE) - I can sing Rammstein songs from the top of my voice in the TVR, on the motorway, with the roof off. Because with that engine and wind roar, no one will be able to hear me anyway.
Depreciation of a hybrid may be somewhat better than all electric
http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/2012...
http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/2012...cptsideways said:
Depreciation of a hybrid may be somewhat better than all electric
http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/2012...
It's a big French saloon... the level of depreciation has nothing to do with the drive-train. http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/2012...
heebeegeetee said:
I consider myself a proper petrolhead.
That means I have an inborn curiosity about machinery, particularly of the four wheeled variety. I don't see cars as man-jewellery.
Therefore I wouldn't hesitate to drive anything new, novel or different, and if it meant i never had to take the car to a filling station (fuelling cars ranks with the trying on of trousers in boredom stakes) I'd have an electric city car any day.
have to agree that going to filling stations to re fuel is a pain, but with a Passat bluemotion I only have to do this about once a week, and I do between 800 and 1000 miles a week.That means I have an inborn curiosity about machinery, particularly of the four wheeled variety. I don't see cars as man-jewellery.
Therefore I wouldn't hesitate to drive anything new, novel or different, and if it meant i never had to take the car to a filling station (fuelling cars ranks with the trying on of trousers in boredom stakes) I'd have an electric city car any day.
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