Chuck
12-01-2007, 12:54 AM
50 million Honda Cubs sold since 1958 - dirty NO & HC emissions drasticly reduced since 2006, but not sold in US :( (http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/eco-friendly-and-vintage-the-honda-c90-is-so-now/)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/533-Innova.jpgChristian Edstrom - New York Times - Nov. 30, 2007
If you are lucky and have $1,500, you might get a Honda Cub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_cub) on ebay. From 2006 on (as the C90/C50), some versions can get 200-348mpg - 50mph max speed -- Ed.
Beyond being the quickest way to telegraph to fellow highway travelers that you enjoy macrobiotic salads and care about the environment, the Toyota Prius gets pretty good gas mileage. But it’s still not as good as the E.P.A. would have you believe.
The original E.P.A. mileage ratings for the Prius were 60 m.p.g. in city driving and 51 on the highway (where the electric motor does much less of the work). But beginning with the 2008 model year, those numbers were recalculated to 48 and 45, partly in response to consumer complaints that real-world mileage didn’t measure up to the E.P.A. numbers. Even so, Prius drivers consistently report 38 to 42 m.p.g. in highway driving and 34 to 35 m.p.g. in city driving.
With those numbers and a substantial price premium over, say, a comparable Corolla, one has to wonder whether the Prius will keep its place at the top of the eco-pyramid. Based on its locavore-and-polar-bear credentials, I think it will. But for drivers who primarily drive in the city, and who are most concerned with actual fuel cost savings, a better solution may be found in keeping your regular car for the odd highway trip and adding a city vehicle from that other Japanese motor conglomerate — Honda.
The Honda C90, introduced in 1958 as the the Honda Cub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_cub), is a 90cc motorcycle whose popularity in developing nations is undisputed. If people were asking Henry Ford for a faster horse, the C90 is Honda’s answer to a better-humored donkey… http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/eco-friendly-and-vintage-the-honda-c90-is-so-now/
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/533-Innova.jpgChristian Edstrom - New York Times - Nov. 30, 2007
If you are lucky and have $1,500, you might get a Honda Cub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_cub) on ebay. From 2006 on (as the C90/C50), some versions can get 200-348mpg - 50mph max speed -- Ed.
Beyond being the quickest way to telegraph to fellow highway travelers that you enjoy macrobiotic salads and care about the environment, the Toyota Prius gets pretty good gas mileage. But it’s still not as good as the E.P.A. would have you believe.
The original E.P.A. mileage ratings for the Prius were 60 m.p.g. in city driving and 51 on the highway (where the electric motor does much less of the work). But beginning with the 2008 model year, those numbers were recalculated to 48 and 45, partly in response to consumer complaints that real-world mileage didn’t measure up to the E.P.A. numbers. Even so, Prius drivers consistently report 38 to 42 m.p.g. in highway driving and 34 to 35 m.p.g. in city driving.
With those numbers and a substantial price premium over, say, a comparable Corolla, one has to wonder whether the Prius will keep its place at the top of the eco-pyramid. Based on its locavore-and-polar-bear credentials, I think it will. But for drivers who primarily drive in the city, and who are most concerned with actual fuel cost savings, a better solution may be found in keeping your regular car for the odd highway trip and adding a city vehicle from that other Japanese motor conglomerate — Honda.
The Honda C90, introduced in 1958 as the the Honda Cub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_cub), is a 90cc motorcycle whose popularity in developing nations is undisputed. If people were asking Henry Ford for a faster horse, the C90 is Honda’s answer to a better-humored donkey… http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/eco-friendly-and-vintage-the-honda-c90-is-so-now/