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That's my experience of them. There's a city car club here that has loads of hybrid yaris and corrola /auris, basically just a 1.3 and 1.6 i4 connected to a cvt style gearbox and nothing fancy else. They do if anything less than your average 1.6 golf at like for like speeds as there is loss in the cvt, as soon as there is traffic though you are winning in a hybrid
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@n3il My dad had a rental hybrid corolla for two weeks. He's not an enthusiastic driver, doesn't care much for speed or handling.
He absolutely hated the Corolla. Said the controls were floppy, the steering vague and engine and gearbox frustrating often labouring and droning away. On the motorway he said it felt unstable and dangerous. So based on those anecdotes from an average driver I'd avoid if long distances were a common requirement.
TRA
Doesn't the fuel consumption reach normal levels on longer drives? Think I read somewhere that it's best for suburb-to-city commute, ie a bit of motorway to charge batteries, then a bit of start and stop on just electric