Why American

[essentialsaltes]

I saw a billboard this morning for the Saturn Hybrid Aura. Great, I thought, an American hybrid, and I know a lot of happy Saturn owners. So I checked it out. The Aura Greenline is priced at $22.7K and gets 28/35 mpg. Hmmm... that doesn't sound so hot.

Let's see... the 2007 Prius gets 60/51 mpg for $22.2K. Far better performance for slightly less money.

Shit, the non-hybrid 2007 Nissan Sentra gets 29/36 with the continuous variable transmission option, pricing out to around $16K.

Sorry, GM. I know you've got twice as many retirees as employees, but you'll just have to do better than that.

Comments

[hagdirt.livejournal.com]

Our Civic regularly gets above 30mpg in city traffic. It's ten years old; when it was made it was the most efficient non-diesel car available. Still gets crappy mileage compared to the Chevy Sprint I had in college, which got 50 on the highway. (And couldn't go over hills faster than 45, and died at 85,000 miles, and sounded like a lawnmower, but hey.)

I'd still consider a Prius, inflated numbers and all, but then I hate spending money on gas in general. The money just goes to things I detest - repressive regimes in the Middle East, W.'s buddies, and my dumbshit oil-man uncle....