POLL: price of hybrid compared to regular car before you'd buy?

[yurbud]

A hybrid Civic is about $4000 more than Honda's midrange car, but only a couple of hundred more than their top convential Civic.

http://www.cars.com/go/config_frameset.jsp?sb=dst&act=ncbssrch&config=t&mkid=18&rt=quick_ncbs.tmpl&trf=homepagenew&tracktype=newcc&referrer=configurator&zc=90401&ddrd=30&srv=dealer&mdnm=Civic&year=2005&so=asc&szc=&rd=100&sk=dst&fs=&affiliate=national&aff=national

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[newscott]

1. I can't afford either, so this is a non-issue for me.

[ThumperDumper]

2. You missed an option...

I'd buy one now.

(Just as soon as my current one is paid off in about a year.)

[DBoon]

3. Missing option

I already own a hybrid!

[flamin lib]

4. Bought a conventional car. Nissan Sentra. Gets 31.5 mixed.

Would get more if the freeway driving wasn't at 80 mph--gotta' stay out of the way or get hurt.

Main reason was battery life and cost of replacement. If I planned to trade up every 5 years it might make sense except that trade in of a hybrid with a battery out of warranty will be almost nothing.

[Ian David]

5. I already own one

[Gabi Hayes]

7. fanTAStic

mine....a jetta diesel



and this, from the vigil



PS, if you think the wait for hybrids/diesels was bad before......

[CrispyQ]

11. lol

"Bush firing Karl Rove would be like the dummy firing the ventriloquist."


:rofl:


I LOVE THAT!!!

[Gabi Hayes]

14. I know....hadn't seen that one before.......and I didn't notice

the DU sticker til I uploaded it today

sweet!

[Citizen Jane]

6. Price point wasn't the problem for us

The waiting list was so long for a prius that my husband's car was dying and we couldn't wait 8-10 months for a new car (as it was we were expecting a new baby in two months.

This was before the honda's were available.

I think you have to consider supply as well as price.

[pocket]

8. when I can buy a good used one

I don't buy brand new cars.

[Ian David]

13. I'll sell you mine for $25,000. Bumper stickers included. n/t

[yasmina27]

9. Already own one!

[etherealtruth]

10. For me, the point is ...

...the government should be giving huge incentives for very efficient vehicles ... making them affordable.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Alraedy have, and I'd say we already saved about ... oh 1000

in gas over a year