Woman Suing Honda: False Advertising on Electic Car

http://news.yahoo.com/false-advertising-angry-hybrid-car-owner-suing-honda-182504856.html

so much for the myth of the 'hybrids' being the answer. I get more mileage from my $15000 Ford Focus than this woman gets with her high dollar hybrid..

 

Invoke the Lemon law.

I don't know what Honda gets but my Prius Hybrid gets 64 mpg in the city and nearly 50 on the highway.

Just keeping it real and being honest.

Happy New Year.

 

Put a sail on top of the car and use wind power. You can't get more green than that.

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And if there is no wind put an electric fan behind it,....

 

they offered all hybrid car owners a $1000 coupon toward another Honda.

it isn't just the one car...it's ALL the Honda hybrids.

 

honestly they all have a lot of work to do to compete with the Prius.

 

I had a girlfriend in the late 70's, who had a VW Rabbit,w/ a five speed manual, that got around 50mpg on the highway, no problem...

 

I used to have a Geo Metro in college, that thing got awesome mileage, I don't remember exactly what, but it was way better than most of the cars on the road now. It was free too, a gift from my sister when she moved to California, so it was the greatest car ever!

 

My wife's Metro averages 50+MPG...her father's VW Jetta averages about 48 and will top 52 on a long highway trip. Her old Festiva, without overdrive or even fuel injection, averaged about 47.

 

She was pretty smart to go to all the trouble of testing things to see whether the car lived up to its claims.
Good on her.

 

She doesn't know how to drive. she's probably pressing the gas pedal hard and going too fast. I save 40% more gas by using the cruise control and pressing easy on the gas...staying under 75mph saves you gas. She needs a leson on gas saving tips.

 

I had a Geo metro as well and that little bugger easily topped 40 mpg. I used it to deliver pizzas for awhile and actually made a profit from the fuel bonus they paid us. It was a death trap though.

 

Agreed. Death traps. I had one a few years ago. I was cut off by a guy while going 15 MPH and it totalled my front end. Dude's Taurus only had a dent in the door.





She shoulda got a Prius.

 

I drive a Honda Insight, their purpose build hybrid like the Prius (you can not compare the Prius to the civic which is an adapted hybrid, for that you have to compare the Civic to the Camry Hybrid) and I get excellent fuel consumption, a LOT better than I did with my Ford Fiesta.

AH

 

I got a new Sonata new in 2006. I drive slow and don't push the pedal like a crazy bastard. I get 35mpg.

 

obviously this woman wasn't paying attention

Honda should counter-sue her

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Good one! Tried to rep but I guess I have to spread some more around.

 

Good one! Same with you. Tried to rep but I guess I have to spread some more around.

 

BigOil is scared of the electric car. They want it gone just like in 2000. They don't want working examples of it scooting around for all to see...that it works...

They know that there is technology bringing new sources of green power in the form of geo and solar thermal to the US, where electric hybrids will take a ginormous chunk out of their future profiteering. Instead of being smart businessmen and investing in manipulating policy to favor them having a monopoly on pricing the new type of energies that have virtually no overhead once installed, and the energy source is free and clean, they are investing in trying to keep us shackled to dirty carbon burning to get around.

Note: I said "hybrid", not "pure electric" ...the latter will take some time to work the bugs out of...just like the Model T. But time marches on and so does progress. BigOil take note: we are not going to become a third world country and (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)es of foreign oil countries just so you can keep packing your bank accounts without the pain of switching over. You can either adapt or perish...like you love to chant about the free market.

Get it together and grow up. Welcome to the 21st Century..

 

Cruise control does not save you gas mileage. Varying your speed does. Using gravity and light accel down a hill, and a bare minimum to get you up at the end saves you gas. Cruise control is an idiot, attempting to keep your speed consistent.

Silhouette, your rhetoric does not address the fact that the hybrid producer misrepresented their cars mileage.

It is false advertizing, not "do you really like green stuff, what conspiracy can you come up with to ignore the facts".

 

throw it on the compost heap.

Bury it in your garden and plant corn on it.

Turn it into a cute little trailer park pansy planter.


now THAT is green.

 

Honda does not control the EPA testing procedures and is free to advertise their results. The EPA procedures are not intended to be a guarantee of what mileage the car will get for a specific driver, but more of a laboratory-tested guideline as to what expected mileage the car will get for most drivers.

Here at our car dealership, our cars have an expected range for the MPG estimates that is usually about 30% over and under the EPA ratings. She should have read her window sticker - and she should stop driving 85 mph with such a lead foot.

Oh, and it isn't Honda's problem that she isn't getting the gas mileage out of her car, unless she can prove that it is some defect or that Honda hid something from the EPA during its testing.

 

Where do you think the EPA gets the cars they test to determine fuel efficiency?

The fact that they changed her software to extend the life of the battery they warranty is bait and switch, reducing her fuel economy to about half of what was advertized.

 

No, actually, cruise control DOES save fuel...to the extent that some OTR carriers REQUIRE their drivers to use it!

 

No, it does not. If you are an idiot who cannot maintain your speed on long straight stretches of highway it will. However it COSTS you gas on hills.

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It only saves you gas if you cannot maintain your speed, or are a nervous surger. It accelerates around corners and will COST YOU GAS on hilly terrain. I live at the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountain range, and cruise control does NOT save gas.