How to Pick Your Hybrid Car Part Eleven
December 8th, 2006
How to pick the best Hybrid Car for you
© 2006 by Rick Tamlin
And last but not least for SUVs, the Saturn VUE Green Line (MSRP $22,370) has been on their drawing boards for years but finally made it out into production for 2007, with a really unusual twist for a Hybrid SUV:
It gets better mileage on the highway (32 MPGs) than in the city. (27 MPGs) This is rare in the Hybrid field mainly because it is all the braking (which is more likely in the city) that sends energy back to the batteries in a hybrid system… So having a hybrid car that derives power from driving without braking is an unusual, but welcome feature that the one-half of Americans who don’t live or drive daily in an urban environment will appreciate.
Honda’s Insight and Accord also have achieved this reverse mileage advantage, but this is the only SUV to do so, and more SUV owners live in the rural areas, by far. Otherwise, the VUE Green Line is very comparable to the Mariner or the Escape, except that it’s the least expensive of all in this class.
For the rest of us, there are the mainstream, mid-sized, family coupes. For decades these cars have been dominated with names like Camry & Accord, so I guess it should be no surprise to you that these very models are competing for hybrid supremacy as well.
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