kb58 wrote:I once figured that if I sold my truck and got a Prius, it would take something like 150,000 miles to break even on the "improvement" in fuel economy. Pretty eye-openning, actually.
Mom wanted a prius. She has a 1.8L prizm that gets about 35 mpg highway. At the time gas was $3.50 a gallon. I can't remember how much the prius was but I calculated she'd have to drive something insane like 270,000 miles before it paid off a cent.
