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Consumer Reports Magazine, Prius in July issue

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Chessie, Jun 8, 2008.

  1. Chessie

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    I Have their newest July issue where they rate both the base Prius and the touring edition on their 0-100 point scale. The overall score for the base model is 68 and the Touring model is 80. In last months issue they tested a Touring model for the first time, I knew they liked the Touring more, but I didn't realize it would score that much higher in their overall tests.
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    Those rankings are old--based on the 04 models. They haven't caught up with the recent market upheavel in May due to gas prices yet.
     
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    How did they base the conparison on 04's? I bought a Touring as soon as I could an 07 in November of 06.:confused:
     
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    The report is on pp. 51 and these scores are under "Overall road-test score" with separate columns for "Price", "MPG", and "Reliability." From what I can tell, their "road-test" has more to do with safety and handling.

    Now if operating costs, MPG, has any meaning:
    44 - Prius Base (68 road-handling)
    42 - Prius Touring (80 road-handling)
    37 - Honda Civic Hybrid (72 road-handling)
    34 - Honda Fit (subcompact, 75 road-handling)
    34 - Toyota Yaris (subcompact, 36 road-handling)
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    I suspect "Consumer Reports" will get a few comments from the membership.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    i think it's interesting that they got 2mpg fewer with the Touring. I wondered if the Touring got lower mpg (though negligible) just from my personal experience...
     
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