The car with a high score, a weekend post
This isn’t a web post, but I think it fits under the heading ‘Of Interest to Geeks’. I discovered recently that Discount rents Toyota hybrid cars, so the next time a trip out of town came up I used the opportunity to try one.
I was really impressed. The Prius drove well, had plenty of space and even has an LCD screen in the dash so you can track your fuel economy in real time (at least until your significant other switches the screen off as ‘you should be concentrating on the road, not the computer’).
Best of all was the fuel efficiency. Driving somewhere at around the speed limit (give or take 10km/h) in town, highway and rural roads gave a very respectable consumption figure of 4.2 l/100km, or 56 mpg (US). Now that’s impressive, with seemingly never going below $1/l again and my current scary bedtime reading being The Weather Makers I’ll definitely rent a Prius again.