My next car?

[cjsmith]

I like small. (To give you an idea, I consider today's Corolla "a bit big".) I like good gas mileage. I like efficiency, especially in design.

Small, sleek, and gets unprecedented mileage.

I would only have to make my current car last until 2009. Hey, why not? Twenty years is a nice round number.

Disadvantages: diesel fuel (not at every gas station around here), unproven design (can't count on getting twenty years out of this one).

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It is, although the tide of consumer opinion is shifting at least a little. The Prius is still selling like hotcakes. Maybe by 2009, or the year or two thereafter that it'd take for US road certification, there would be some buyers here. Presuming that there would be enough buyers to make a US market worth their while might be stretching it.

To survive on the roads here you'd want to get the slightly more powerful of the two Loremo models. The less-powerful one does 0-100 (kph, close to 0-60 mph) in 20 seconds. That's... not good, not for freeway ramps.