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Replying to: fusion_female (Jun 21, 2009 9:14 pm) Particularly if you want to lease, there is little financial reason to hybridize. Certainly not with a FFH. Maybe a Honda Insight -- much cheaper. Monetarily speaking, the $64 question is what the price of diesel fuel will be vis-a-vis gasoline. These new diesel engine cars get wonderful mileage, and with the new now sulphur fuel dont stink. The other questions you need to answer to get a better fiscal answer: highway vs city vs surburban driving. Hybrids shine city driving. length and depth of cold weather -- hybrids must run the engine to warm you and the batteries -- less saving in cold weather. I gotta tell you --- the FFH is a wonderful automobile with, for me, the right size. Let us know your decision. Rog in Vermont |
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Replying to: hoyafan (Jun 22, 2009 5:34 am) And it is a full warranty; it is NOT prorated based on the life of the battery. As a purchaser of a new, expensive, high-tech automobile, I have the fear that something post-warranty will die and Ford will demand my children's birthright to fix it. The high-voltage battery is the least of the worries, because of the high-mileage warranty. The five california emission states are California, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Rog in Vermont |
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Replying to: fusion_female (Jun 21, 2009 9:14 pm) |
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Replying to: fusion_female (Jun 22, 2009 5:07 am) FFH would be tough to justify in a normal leasing situation. |
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Replying to: fusion_female (Jun 22, 2009 5:07 am) If you didn't buy a FFH, but were looking at a 4 cylinder or V6 Fusion, then I would recommend the 4 cyl over the FFH and the FFH over the V6. Don't forget the tax credit, I believe $1,700, you get for buying a FFH. The FFH does well with city driving. Driving like "a little old lady" (how my wife describes my driving), I easily get 42+ mpg after the ICE is hot and the temperature is below 85F. I haven't had that mpg because half of my driving is at interstate speeds and recently temperatures are 95-100F. A non-hybrid car would get a similar, or worse mpg decrease in hot temperatures. |
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Has anyone kept track of their gas receipts and computed their mpg based on the gasoline purchased vs. the readout from the car? I have. At my last fillup, 4673.0 miles, I had bought and thus burned or evaporated 123.91 gals (37.7 mpg), but the readout on my long term dash mpg was 38.9. The difference being about 3.5 gals. I know there are measurement errors all around, but is this within the limits expected for the car's calculation or fuel pumps?
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Replying to: WyattNichols (Jun 22, 2009 5:53 pm)
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Replying to: akirby (Jun 22, 2009 7:03 pm) No. I'm using the long term mpg since I picked up the car. I have checked the mpg for each of the 10 tanks of gas I've bought. As it should be, the average mpg for these 10 tanks of gas was basically the same as the total gals bought divided into the total miles. Yeah, I didn't think 3% off was all that bad, unless everybody else was getting a difference below the car's reported mpg. True measurement error should be distributed on both sides of the car's reported mpg.
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Replying to: WyattNichols (Jun 23, 2009 1:57 am)
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