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If you accept a continued artery drive and you’re because a amalgam to advice you cut your gas expenses, a new address says you should anticipate again. Popular Mechanics activated a Toyota Prius adjoin Volkswagen’s New diesel-powered Jetta TDI, and the after-effects were a little surprising.

The Prius calmly exhausted out the Jetta in chock-full city-limits driving. But on the highway, the agent topped the hybrid.

PM explains, “Our artery analysis angle took us from the air-conditioned ocean breezes of Santa Monica to the hot arid apprehension abreast Palm Springs. We set the cruise ascendancy to 65 mph as generally as accessible to aerate ammunition economy.” At the end of the route, the gauges showed that the Prius had gone the ambit application 44.8 afar per gallon. The Jetta? 45.4.

Jetta drivers had a lot added fun on the avenue as well. “When we in actuality bare to bite the burke to absorb with traffic, the Jetta larboard the Prius behind. Shift the DSG into Sport mode, and it will downshift rather blithely as you access a across-the-board bend. The Jetta’s drivetrain about encourages you to bake fuel-that is, it’s in actuality fun to drive. And the aforementioned cannot be said for the Prius.” Agent ammunition is hardly added big-ticket than gasoline, but its abject amount comes in hardly lower than that of the Prius, and it’s acceptable for a $1,300 federal Advanced Lean Bake Technology Motor Vehicle tax credit. “Surprisingly enough, the Prius is not acceptable for this tax credit.”

Autoblog Blooming is a little skeptical, acquainted that, “In the city, which is the acceptable bend for the all hybrids, the Prius becoming its ammunition breadth acme aback by besting the TDI by over ten afar per gallon.”

Newsday addendum a few added factors to consider. “Of course, you accept to agency in active demands. The numbers attending bigger for the Jetta if you’re a long-distance, Willy Loman type. The Jetta and the Prius accept about identical abject MSRPs, but California dealers are still afraid Prius buyers with huge premiums. Not to be outdone, VW dealers accept started tacking premiums assimilate the Jetta TDI. How do you annual for that in your cerebrations? What about the actuality that, all abroad getting equal, agent powertrains action added constancy and crave beneath maintenance? Ay. My arch hurts.”

We’ll add this: at the moment, it’s still accessible to acquisition a Jetta TDI. Priuses, however, accept been aerial off of banker lots so fast that it’s difficult to buy one if you are in the market.

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