Comments on: Government of Canada Honours Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Award Winners

By: amandat

amandat — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:21:00 +0000

@eric neville "the one car that owners consitently say gets BETTER mpgs than posted." yep, it’s rather an exception than a rule in hybrids world.

By: eric neville

eric neville — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:58:46 +0000

Of all the above cars on the list I think the one that makes the most sense might be the Volkswagen Jetta Wagon TDI Clean Diesel….. if I ever recover from the $ticker $hock.
I owned an old stinking smoke belching VW rabbit many many cars ago so belive me I have driven the worst VW ever had to offer.
My test run in the new Jetta Wagon was a dream drive…never mind the HP rating of only 100, it’s the tourqe at the tires that gets you going and his Jetta TDI pulls like a car with a V-8.
It’s also the one car that owners consitently say gets BETTER mpgs than posted. Now, if it was more affordable to buy, I would have one in the garage today. My tester was $26.000 U.S. $35.000 CDN ouch!

By: rob

rob — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:36:32 +0000

@gogreenjohnny Honda Civic Hybrid is something that I consider as well, I've read tons of reviews from HCH owners and frankly speaking, many of them are saying that the added cost of Honda Hybrid will not pay back. I'd like to hear more true stories from the owners

By: gogreenjohnny

gogreenjohnny — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:21:22 +0000

@eric neville The added cost of hybrid car will pay you back in gas mileage over 4-10 year time period, depending on car model, for Honda CH it is about 6 years.

By: Dr.GreenBay

Dr.GreenBay — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:55:16 +0000

I would choose Toyota’s Camry Hybrid. It’s a solid car, very reliable and has 5.7 L/100km, sorry, I’m a ‘metric’ guy (I believe it’s 50 mpg)

This baby is a bit pricey though… However, you may get $2k PST tax rebate from CA Govt… still better than nothing for those who’s on the hybrid market

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By: eric neville

eric neville — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:23:00 +0000

No Top5, it isn’t, plus the Civic Hybrid in my test drive this month was a gutless dud. Add to that, it’s cabin is noisy and the engine sounds like a run away mixmaster when going up hills.

In my 56 mile test run, the car returned 33 mpg (Imperial)

By: top5

top5 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:18:23 +0000

Fair enough.
I was thinking to buy a Honda Civic Hybrid – it’s right at the photo above…until i got to know it costs 10k more vs. regular Honda Civic…
$10k! for that amount of money you can get life time gas supply…Is the green car worth it?

By: eic neville

eic neville — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:01:25 +0000

To think that our CDN Govt. is blowing 3.6 billion of our dollars for this waste of our time “M.P.G.award” is incredible! If anyone wants to know this Mfg. propaganda, you can look it up on the internet for free.
Did we get an actual test drive of all these vehicle for our 3.6 Bil$…Nooo, of course not.
The MPG numbers are all right off the window stickers, and double- quoted in Metric and Imperial measure, a standard that we haven’t used since 1973, when, if you tried to sell gas in the old Imperial Gallons, Trudeaus’ Metric Police would arrest you.