Fuel Efficiency and the Yaris

[palsan]

Originally Posted by BailOut

palsan, you bring up some interesting observations but you and I see the world through totally different views.

The hypermiling techniques you think can only be used on a hybrid can actually be used on any vehicle, but it's especially accessible with the Yaris since the car handles a FAS almost as neatly as a hybrid does.

Yes we have different views of the world, I'm a realist you are a dreamer - no offence intended. I'm just pointing out that even if you were able to change the behaviour of 10% of drivers, the aggressive tendencies in even a minority of the other 90% will negate any fuel savings achieved by the 10%. Nothing wrong with trying to educate. However, on this type of forum you are "preaching to the converted" - the average joe and jane on the road just wants to get to where they are going as quickly as possible - and that means pedal to the metal when the car ahead of them is more than 5 feet away, brakes when the gap <5 feet.

You mention that the yaris is capable of achieving the FAS technique. I don't understand how this is possible with an automatic tranny - please explain.

[Pavel Olavich]

Originally Posted by palsan

Yes we have different views of the world, I'm a realist you are a dreamer - no offence intended. I'm just pointing out that even if you were able to change the behaviour of 10% of drivers, the aggressive tendencies in even a minority of the other 90% will negate any fuel savings achieved by the 10%. Nothing wrong with trying to educate. However, on this type of forum you are "preaching to the converted" - the average joe and jane on the road just wants to get to where they are going as quickly as possible - and that means pedal to the metal when the car ahead of them is more than 5 feet away, brakes when the gap <5 feet.

You mention that the yaris is capable of achieving the FAS technique. I don't understand how this is possible with an automatic tranny - please explain.

You are dead wrong! BailOut's tips do work and are not a dream, as you state. This is patently and blatently wrong of you to suggest it is just a "dream". Lets talk reality, and lets be results based. If you follow half of Brian's tips you will often see a 25% or more increase in MPG, and this is NOT a dream.

We all should Hypermile for many reasons, but if one wants to be selfish, then do it to save lots of money in gas, maintenence, and wear and tear on the car, so even if one does not care about the environment, or emissions, if one hypermiles for no other reason then to save money, that alone will pay off, and the pay off over time is no small amount of money.

Hypermiling does IN FACT work, and I am one of many that has proof of this.

Change your attituded, if for no other reason then for your own selfish gain of saving $$.

It's no dream, to be sure.

And you are wrong again....Brian is not "preaching to the converted"...the fact is, most Yaris owners do not drive to save gas, and in fact most of their driving styles make their Yaris into a gas guzzler in comparision to what they could get MPG wise if they hypermiled.....my daughter drives a 2007 Yaris too, but it may as well be a V6 for the way she drives....she gets just high 20's and I get mid to high '40's for the same drive.