Comments on: Toyota Yaris Sucompact Full Hybrid Unveiled in Geneva

By: omn1potent

omn1potent — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:54:17 +0000

Please release the Yaris Hybrid in Australia ASAP. PlugIn Hybrid LPi models would be most welcomed.

By: JUJUBE

JUJUBE — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:15:21 +0000

Check your English!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: JUJUBE

JUJUBE — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:13:40 +0000

POOR ENGLISH…FOOL.

By: JUJUBE

JUJUBE — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:09:21 +0000

LEARN ENGLISH DUMMY.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:06:24 +0000

learn how to spell FOOL!

By: rom

rom — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:12:35 +0000

Thanks for pointing it out. I didn’t know about that model. Depending on price I will consider it. I would like to buy American this time around but the prices have been way too high. (focus being 50% more than a prius) I don’t need or want the larger car. Thanks again.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:58:46 +0000

@Nelson Lu:

Ha. May be it is now time for you to be updated, rather than sticking your head in the sand.

Fact:
- in 2010, more Honda Insight were sold than Ford Fusion hybrid;
- and the current trend doesn't look well for Ford Fusion hybrid:
Feb sales, YTD sales
Honda Insight 1,722; 3,276
Ford Fusion hybrid 1,379; 2,348

In previous year, sales of Ford Fusion hybrid included a sizable number of purchases from fleet customers, including the Fed. gov't.

Yeah, more retail buyers bought Honda Insight than Ford Fusion hybrid because it meets their needs, leaving Ford Fusion hybrid to be fleet customers' choice.

By: mike L

mike L — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:51:47 +0000

I would much rather see a hybrid Venza.

By: Nelson Lu

Nelson Lu — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:01:56 +0000

And, Anonn, no one is stopping you from driving one of those technically-inferior Hobda hybrid compacts/subcompacts. Leaves the better cars for the rest of us who actually have a life.

By: Nelson Lu

Nelson Lu — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:55:41 +0000

Can you say "subcompacts don't fit everyone's needs?". I know you can. (It's because of that the list you cited makes absolutely no sense.)

I drive an 85-mile commute that goes over high, windy mountain pass. You really think that it's advisable to drive the Smart in this situation? My safest, while not being overly wasteful, alternative is a midsize - one that has more power than the 134 hp Prius - and the Fusion Hybrid provided the best economy among those.

As for families, they can't fit well into *any* of Honda's hybrids well no matter how you squeeze them. It makes more fuel economy-sense to drive a Highlander Hybrid, for example, than 2-3 of those allegedly green Honda hybrids, which is what you'd need to do to transport the entire family.

Sure, if you only drive in the city and not very far, a Honda hybrid may be sufficient - but then, your best car from a fuel-economy sense is really going to be a Nissan Leaf, a Chevrolet Volt, of a Ford Focus EV, not a Honda.