Originally Posted by fizzwheel

I dont own one. But my brother used to work at the local Toyota garage and had the pleasure of driving / servicing one.

His words

"utter sh8te" Like you say, heavy, when not on the batteries, the petrol engine has to be worked hard to keep up with traffic and thus the MPG is rubbish...

He reckoned and I agree, its more economical to buy a small diesel engined car that returns something like 60 odd mpg.

I might be wrong on this, but I dont think the batteries or the production of them that the Prius uses are paticularly "green" either.