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01-18-2010, 07:08 AM
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Last week when I was in New Hampshire, my rental car was a 2009 Nissan Altima hybrid. After driving it for five days, no thank you.
Everytime I pushed on the accelerator, the gas motor came on. Then when I started to coast, it would shut off and go to electric but it sounded like I was running out of gas. So quite often I got caught in these middle areas where I would start coasting, then need to speed up. So the gas motor got stuck in the middle of stopping and starting. It made the ride jerky here and there and gave me no confidence there was any GO power if I needed to stomp on it to get out of the way or pass someone.
No disrespect to anyone here who has one, but I did not like it one bit. It's nice and all to be conscious of your carbon footprint, but I won't be buying one of these vehicles ever.
-Mike |
01-18-2010, 07:09 AM
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01-18-2010, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150  Last week when I was in New Hampshire, my rental car was a 2009 Nissan Altima hybrid. After driving it for five days, no thank you.
Everytime I pushed on the accelerator, the gas motor came on. Then when I started to coast, it would shut off and go to electric but it sounded like I was running out of gas. So quite often I got caught in these middle areas where I would start coasting, then need to speed up. So the gas motor got stuck in the middle of stopping and starting. It made the ride jerky here and there and gave me no confidence there was any GO power if I needed to stomp on it to get out of the way or pass someone.
No disrespect to anyone here who has one, but I did not like it one bit. It's nice and all to be conscious of your carbon footprint, but I won't be buying one of these vehicles ever.
-Mike | Isn't that a bit like trying one dud petrol car, circa 1910, and deciding all petrol cars are going to be a waste of time? 
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01-18-2010, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk Isn't that a bit like trying one dud petrol car, circa 1910, and deciding all petrol cars are going to be a waste of time? | Probably.
-Mike
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01-18-2010, 09:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Pacific Northwest USA | | | If you were unhappy with your hybrid experience, that's ok... there is value in your opinion and it can serve as good information for someone who is considering one.
A hybrid "likes" to be driven differently than a traditional IC gasoline rig. Diesels, while another world altogether, also typically work better when driven differently than a gas.
A person with an interest and / or appreciation for the technology, or mechanism, with regards to hybrids / diesels will likely find something likable about the experience. Others will not.
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01-18-2010, 11:21 AM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | My problem with hybrids is that I would be driving like a jack rabbit on a hot date all the time just to see if I could prove the numbers wrong. |
01-18-2010, 11:27 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | Hydrocarbons are my friend.
Hydrocarbons= Horsepower
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01-18-2010, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 Last week when I was in New Hampshire, my rental car was a 2009 Nissan Altima hybrid. After driving it for five days, no thank you.
Everytime I pushed on the accelerator, the gas motor came on. Then when I started to coast, it would shut off and go to electric but it sounded like I was running out of gas. So quite often I got caught in these middle areas where I would start coasting, then need to speed up. So the gas motor got stuck in the middle of stopping and starting. It made the ride jerky here and there and gave me no confidence there was any GO power if I needed to stomp on it to get out of the way or pass someone.
No disrespect to anyone here who has one, but I did not like it one bit. It's nice and all to be conscious of your carbon footprint, but I won't be buying one of these vehicles ever.
-Mike | +1
I guess I come from a time where if your car stopped running while you were driving it, it was ******.
I just can't get used to the way the hybrid operates.
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01-18-2010, 11:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | You don't like hybrids because they don't feel like completely gas-powered cars?
I don't like chainsaws because they don't handle like wood saws. 
I get your point, though. It's a totally new feeling. The Altima's engine behavior is especially irritating. I tried a Prius and it felt pretty cool, mainly because the gas engine seldom started, even on smooth accelerations. The lack of noise gets you sleepy, though.
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01-18-2010, 11:51 AM
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That said, the traction control drives me crazy - I like to drive a little harder than it wants me to. I drive the car with a much lighter touch than I did my WRX, but it still has a rough time on wet mountain roads.
My next car I'll go back to AWD. Love the hybrid mileage, and most of the driving characteristics, but that one thing drives me nutx.
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01-18-2010, 12:15 PM
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01-18-2010, 12:25 PM
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01-18-2010, 12:55 PM
| | | | The hybrid approach seems to complicated to me. I would rather have a straight up electric car with an on-board gas powered electric generator. |
01-18-2010, 01:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coeur d'Alene | | | My problem with hybrids is the reliability factor. Who knows how these cars are going to perform 10 years down the road, and the repairs on them are out-of-sight expensive.
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01-18-2010, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by hdracer Hydrocarbons are my friend.
Hydrocarbons= Horsepower |
I resemble this remark.
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01-18-2010, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by RWP I would rather have a straight up electric car with an on-board gas powered electric generator. |
Ummm... that is a hybrid. A different type of hybrid, but still a hybrid.
That is how the Chevy Volt is supposed to work (plus be pluggable).
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01-18-2010, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by aborgman Ummm... that is a hybrid. A different type of hybrid, but still a hybrid.
That is how the Chevy Volt is supposed to work (plus be pluggable). | Yeah, you are right. What I mean is leave out all the drive line complication. Not sure what they call that. |
01-18-2010, 02:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | All of the toyota Hybrids work much better than the Altima.
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01-18-2010, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound All of the toyota Hybrids work much better than the Altima. | The Altima is a little car that I barely fit it, and that Prius looks even smaller. There ain't no way you're getting me in Japan's take on the Mini Cooper.
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01-18-2010, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 The Altima is a little car that I barely fit it, and that Prius looks even smaller. There ain't no way you're getting me in Japan's take on the Mini Cooper.
-Mike | How big are you? The Altima is on the large side of mid-sized sedans.
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