Hot_Georgia_2004:

Thanks for sharing your experience with this. I avoided making some vinyl stickers about 70mpg because of this sort of thing. People already have a hard enough time believing that and assume that the high mileage is the best, and not a true average. Just driving around an Insight and having the plate "BEST MPG" is enough of a public awareness display for me. Even if they don't know what the car is capable of, they at least see that it exists!

Someone keying my car in a parking lot also changed my mind about putting some small vinyl text on the side windows for anyone curious enough to inspect the car. Just like the Honda Ridgeline has been seen by some as an assault on thier views of a what a truck should be, it seems like there is a bit of a backlash against hybrids. We're challenging their status quo, and some people don't like it.

 

My lmpg is 50.9 but for the last five tanks or so, I have been averaging close to 60 mpg. (BTW, I credit this entirely to the help I have received at Greenhybrid.com.) So when people ask, I tell them I average 50 mpg, but have been getting closer to 60 lately.

They blink, they nod their head, and say, "You're kidding, aren't you?" I laugh.

I am on a run of 5, soon to be 6, tanks of 700 miles plus.

 

and I revived this thread from the dead.....

Well, here's my latest sticker until I think up one for next week. Put one on both my HCH and Insight. Might keep them on a week or two until I get bored with them. or until I get threatened.

 

Amen!

Ever notice that the people we really admire are not obsessed with what they wear, drive, or who they hang around?

 

hahahahaha! very funny sticker.

 

I think one has to be a true Simpsons fan to REALLY understand it and appreciate it.

 

Does anybody know where I buy/custom-make a plastic window sticker (the type that adheres to glass but can be easily removed) online? If so, please link me, I'm interested in making something similar to the "(battery included) greenhybrid.com" bumper sticker sold on cafepress.com

 

My wife wants the my car sips sticker... your car sucks. That's one funny sticker.

 

I'm thinking about a rear window LED display that shows the instant MPG, fed from a scangage or other OBD2 reader. Obnoxious, but showing REAL numbers in REAL time, big enough so nobody can miss it. Nobody can argue with that sort of evidence in their face. Well, nobody rational, that is.

"I am getting --> XX.Y mpg RIGHT NOW"

 

could this work? although i don't know if you could feed it information on the fly, but you could store messages like "45 mpg" or "50 mpg" and switch them with a remote:



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