Here's a spreadsheet that computes the savings in gasoline. Like I said about 3 tons over 120,000 miles.

You're completely wrong about volcanic eruptions and CO2.

The 1984-88 Civic gets my vote. Some Civic *has* to win but the votes will be split between all the generations and the fantastic model range (hatchback, sedan, CRX, and wagon/Shuttle/AWD) in the 1980s and early 1990s. Honda, what the hell happened?

The Aerodeck was Europe-only.

Front mid-engine layout! Even with 4WD, driving in the snow in one of those is terrifying, the wheelbase feels about 3 feet.

Not econobox and you can't collect one, you have to lease for $600/month.

Try to say "Mazda Bongo Friendee" without laughing. I think it was quite a bit larger.

You're math-illiterate and utterly lack common sense if you think mining and making an extra 100 pounds of recyclable batteries is as bad for the environment as producing, refining, spilling, then burning the 3-4 TONS of extra gasoline that a hybrid saves over 100,000 miles.

The Civic wagons were so great starting with the original Space Shuttle (they dropped the name after the Challenger explosion), what happened? The current "To Each Their Own" Civic ad campaign in the USA showing a bunch of goofs all driving nearly identical cars is just a sad reminder of when the Civic really had a…

Good, but the 1984 Civic hatchback has much nicer, cleaner lines.

The flush headlamps (and extra 6" length) of that fourth-gen Civic allowed for a smoother design, but I'm still partial to the original "long deck" design, the 1984-1988 Civic hatchback. The 1500S model is the finest use of two-tone paint, and it has insane packaging efficiency in 12.5 feet.

Horacio Pagani also designs dentists' equipment. My dentist has a full "Squalo (apparecchiature dentali)" setup. The leather reclining chair with built-in catheter, the forged brass and milled aluminum jaw retractors, the ungodly whine of the 45,000 rpm drill reverberating through the ductwork of the carbon fiber…

I'm wrong, if you hoon it the Volt may call on its gas engine even below 70mph. GM's misleading campaign that it's an electric car with a range-extender continues to confuse! [gm-volt.com] says 'So it turns out the engine can contribute motive force to the Volt even at speeds from 30 to 70 mph presumably when the…

You and everyone else assuming he must be hypermiling are mistaken. If you drive a Volt a short distance before plugging back in, you can drive aggressively and floor the accelerator and still use no gasoline. The Volt doesn't use gasoline until its battery runs out or you drive over 70mph. (And I see a lot of…

They already make normal-looking hybrids that drivers like: as @Maymar suggests, take the Ford Fusion Hybrid (39 combined mpg). But if you care more about efficiency and engineering than looks, you don't use a sedan or wagon shape. The Honda Insight (old and new) and the Prius have far better aerodynamics, 0.26 CDa…

I did the math elsewhere in reply to @strays2k. Based off the Volt's EPA sticker, 1500 all-electric miles costs you a mere 60 bucks if you pay 11 cents/kW·h. Plugging in is cheap: the Volt's all-electric "fuel" costs 4 cents/mile. For comparison, the Leaf costs 3.75 cents/mile; it's slightly more efficient at 34…

Your point is valid, though you mean kilowatt hours (kW·h) for the energy used; kW is a measure of power. In order to prolong its battery pack the Volt does not use all of its battery capacity to travel 35 miles (the Leaf discharges more but uses a different lithium chemistry). So the EPA says Volt uses 10.9 kW·h to…

And how do you think gasoline is made? It's dirty, polluting as hell, has to be refined in polluting refineries, then shipped, and I've yet to see a massive lithium spill killing off wildlife. Nickel mining is no picnic, but you have to be math-illiterate and utterly lacking in common sense to think that making a…

Let's do the math. 1554 miles on 1/2 gallon gasoline, so round it down to 1500 miles powered by electricity alone. Then just go read the EPA sticker, it tells you: when running all-electric (for the first ~35 miles), the car consumes 36 kilowatt hours per 100 miles. So 540 kW·h. The cost of that electricity depends…

Ford Escape Hybrid AWD (29 combined mpg /30 city / 27 highway), or the regular ICE Escape AWD (23 combined /20 city / 27 highway).