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| Topic | Have you ever driven a hybrid vehicle before? |
| adjl 03/09/23 5:49:53 PM #16: | Muscles posted... Cars are great, especially ICE engines, hybrids are lame, like who looks at a prius and thinks it's a badass car? What kind of loser worries about how badass their car looks? A car is a tool, existing solely to work around decades of poor city design choices spurred on by propaganda from the very companies selling those cars. Buying one to look cool (and especially mocking those who buy them with some modicum of environmental consciousness in mind instead of prioritizing how cool they look) just means you've deep-throated that propaganda so hard that it's become part of your personality, and that's just sad. Plus, that's without considering that most modern hybrids are visually indistinguishable from other cars, and in fact many mainstream models simply have a hybrid version available. Defaulting to the Prius as the archetypal hybrid shows that you're not only being an insufferable car enthusiast, you're being an insufferable car enthusiast who hasn't updated his "insults" in 15 years. For a 30-year-old, that's not exactly a good thing. wpot posted... Yep - that's exactly what I'd try to figure. I suspect I'm suburban enough that the math wouldn't quite work, but it does work for some... Yeah, I can't necessarily speak to your specific situation. Even if you're relatively suburban, though, suburban "highways" often have plenty of lights and start-stop traffic (especially during commuting hours), which is when hybrids excel over ICE's. It can be hard to figure out the exact difference, especially where a lot of newer models won't necessarily have the necessary maintenance cost data to do a proper comparison, but it might work out in hybrids' favour. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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