There are hacks for the Prius that enable it to get much better gas milage than that.

>My neighbor has a Prius and gets 50 mpg.
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>>Hello all.
>>Over the weekend my lovely wife's car died. It was a 1995 Mitsubishi Galant.
>>She didn't buy it new.... but anyway, it died.
>>
>>Well she has had couple of promtions since and is making more money, so she wants to get something "nice", a high end Toyota or even a Lexus.
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>>What do you all think?