2026-05-06 17:44 UTC
@TechConnectify
Location issues are weird, eh?
"...a shockingly consistent 34 miles per gallon..." from a 2021 hybrid? And that's 50% more range than its predecessor...?
But ... it's worse than most plain ICEs since about 1990, equal to my 1987 Citroen, long gone, worse than my current crappy old (2005) Renault (c.45mpg in Summer, maybe 42 in Winter, until you do long journeys when it can get up to 59 with a tailwind).
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@electropict@mastodon.scot 2026-05-06 17:45
@TechConnectify (Both manual transmission btw.)
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@VW_Guy@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 18:12
@electropict @TechConnectify In America we don't talk about things like that. We Europeans and Americans also don't talk about how big cars have gotten in the last 30-40 years. The Europeans at least offer new models that are smaller but in the states its a big nope. Modern VW Polo's are bigger than MK 1 and 2 Golf's I posted my big rant about this on Lemmy
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@TechConnectify@mas.to 2026-05-06 19:14
@electropict Given the cars you've just mentioned, remember that the US gallon is smaller than an Imperial gallon by a pretty large margin.