>>http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/04/20/honda-appeals-hybrid-mpg-court-award/
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>>$200 and a coupon towards buying ANOTHER one. The lawyers on both sides are laughing all the way to the bank,
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>>FWIW A very good friend of mine has a Civic hybrid, and though she really likes the car, she never gets over 40MPG. She is envious of our Prius's (my wife and I each have one) which actually DO get over 50MPG (mine) and 47MPG(my wife).
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>So she's the leadfoot in the family ;-)


I'll be kind and mention that her Prius is a 2009 and mine is a 2010, and the 2010 does get better MPG by design.

Yes - she is a leadfoot. The accellerator is basically an on/off switch for her.

FWIW we both were getting better MPG until we both bought new Goodyear Assurance Fuel Max tires. I lost about 10% (used to average 55 all the time on the oem Yokohamas). Thanks Goodyear.