Re: Prius and Highway 4 slow commute

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But it doesn't have the same transmission,

I was comparing 5 speed manual to the PSD

or tires

175/65R14 or 185/60R15 VS Prius 185/65R15 and BTW the OE GY Integrities
aren't LRR

or body shape, and

Prius is more aerodynamic but bigger.

its body is made of heavier materials, and...

True

A car is not just an engine going down the road.

Oh--not to mention that it's NOT the same engine. They may share a
block, and they may have the same displacement, but they're most
certainly not the same engines.

Well the head is different (I think)

And yet as I said despite all of this it still gets better highway MPG.

My current car is a 97 Lumina 3.1 (3100) that gets half the MPG of the Prius
with an engine twice the displacement and 4 cubic feet more interior volume.


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