Well, the number one thing that would improve any car's mpg is the display screen. Let the average driver see how they're wasting gas with a current mpg and an overall mpg and see if their driving style changes for the better.

Number two would be tire pressure. But you can't make people check their tire pressure frequently. And with the virtual extinction of full service gas stations......

The article was provocative but not totally unreasonable (I've seen worse articles).

What really turned me off is the comments that followed it. I quickly identified two groups of folks that simply annoyed me. The first group is out to simply dismiss and bash hybrids in general. It just so happens that this was an article on the Prius. We're kind of used to these folks anyway. <_<

The second group appeared to be made up of Prius fanboys (or girls) who dismiss anything else hybrid that is not a Prius. Talk about being overly elitistic and completely missing the point. :blink:

Cheers;

MSantos

OK, so we don't want to build a hybrid because that costs more, but we can make a regular car more like a hybrid so it'll get better mileage so we won't have to buy a hybrid, but then that regular car will cost more, so shoot we can't do that ... no, wait, here's what we'll do ...