That's European cycle, where the identical Prius gets 60mpg. And most of those excellent diesels are smaller cars with stop-start, i.e. they're micro-hybrids.

Everything you're now saying is more or less true, but you're changing the subject to avoid admitting what you started off saying is wrong. Have you driven the pokey underpowered Polo 1.2L diesel? Also the European cycle is a lot more forgiving than USA, the same 50 EPA mpg Prius gets 60 mpg there. And in Road &…

Supposedly stop-start doesn't benefit EPA mpg figures, from which, as I understand it, CAFE requirements are derived by complicated regulatory math. So it's been a long time coming in the USA. I think a few Porsche and M-B models are starting to come over with the feature intact.

I'm curious, where did you read that?

it gets about the same gas mileage as a well sorted diesel

As @wkiernan says elsewhere, "absolute bullshit, sheer unmitigated bullshit, disprovable bullshit, bullshit that flies in the face of both arithmetic and common sense, 101% bullshit, bullshit with rocket-assist". Just because Clarkson handwaved on TV doesn't make it true.

Uh, if you do the math you'd realize that over 120,000 miles a Prius will save 3 tons of gasoline and 10 tons of CO2 car compared with a TDI.

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The blank bar is for the front license plate (NOT the Audi rings!), but since he has no license plate why not remove it and expose the entire grille? Google image search shows lots of Audi R8s without that bar...

Where's the "Fools"? The Prius v, plus a rebadged Highlander Hybrid, and the Tesla-engineered RAV4 EV.

I've never seen car models balloon out as much as Subaru has this decade.

I'm impressed that Chinese bus drivers can see those logos through the smog, especially in a rear-end collision. Nice badge education. "Most expensive, top left, is SCC which according to the poster sells for 50 million yuan in China, or 7.9 million USD"

Interesting, because the CHAdeMO organization promoting the fast 30-minute DC charging in the Leaf (and Mitsubishi i-MiEV) says "The number of CHAdeMO DC Quick charger installed up to today is 1071. — (Japan 848 Europe 191 Other 32)." Maybe the writer or Nissan is referring to lack of charging stations for apartment…

I love Evel, but a typical adult human skeleton consists of 206 bones! He broke 45% of his skeleton in one accident?

The 2015 Acura NSX supposedly has true torque vectoring. "Two more electric motors will spin the front wheels, providing torque-vectoring under acceleration and braking to help the NSX turn into corners better under all conditions." (Motor Trend)

At 7 min: "It's this new age. We're going to be running around 25 km on electric power only, but then you've got to experience a 770 horsepower, combined horsepower from the three power sources."

Sounds like yes. From the nice Evo video @StupidFlanders posted here, around @5:45 :

You're not taking the federal mortgage interest deduction? Good for you, cash is king!

First sentence: agreed. It's an appliance. Newsflash: most people aren't Jalopniks.

"Hybrid-related components for hybrid vehicles are covered for 8 years/100,000 miles. The HV battery may have longer coverage under emissions warranty." ... under the California emissions regulations the battery and certain parts of the emissions system are covered for 10 years/150,000 miles. Batteries seem to be…