[Healeys] OT: Prius. Delete if not curious

[Dave Gay]

Drove my '66 1098 Sprite from Kansas City to Limon, Colorado, on less
than a tank in 1970.  The gauge showed empty for the last 50 miles.  The
situation may have been helped by the fact that the muffler fell off in
St. Louis (started in Washington, D.C. and drove to Fayetteville, North
Carolina, first).  By the way, I still drive the little car in the
summer ... installed a new muffler.

Dave
'60 Bugeye
'60 BT7
'66 Sprite
Couple of MGB's


-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces+dgay=simoncontractors.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces+dgay=simoncontractors.com at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Alan Seigrist
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:47 PM
To: rwil at sbcglobal.net
Cc: Healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] OT: Prius. Delete if not curious

I bet you there's some 948 bugeye owners out there that have gotten 40
mpg
on the highway, and that's not a hybrid!  ;P



On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:35 AM, <rwil at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> You wrote:
> Had a chance to drive a Prius this past weekend.
> -----------------------
> Over the past three years my wife and I have driven our Prius some
75000
> miles. Our mileage on California freeways at 75+ and secondary roads
has
> almost never been below 46 mpg per tank.  There are some nonintuitive
tricks
> that can help mileage
>
> I would agree that handling on curvy roads is not the Prius' strong
point.
> Here are a few suggestions:  inflate tires to 40psi. Replace tires
with
> better ones; those OEM factory tires are good for mileage and price
only.
> There are groups like the Yahoo priuschat where you can get some
suspension
> modifications that may help. And feed it a little power on those
curves.
>
> You can buy a new Prius for something like $22000 although ours has
about
> everything the factory could think of plus leather upholstery.
>
> Here in Hawaii where we are now, regular gas is about $4.25 per
gallon.
> And we are starting to see more Priuses here now.
>
> I am waiting for someone to make a Prius-like version of a Subaru
Forester
> -- the smallest vehicle that can hold us, our 100# Newfoundland and
stuff
> for a few days' trip.
>
> -Roland
> BN1 #724
> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
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