           Source: Toyota  Comments     Threshold   RE: you wont
get 50mpg By thankfullyretired on 2/10/2012 1:11:27 AM , Rating:
2 I think it will get 50mpg a fair percentage of the time. I
frequently get ~50mpg in my second generation Prius and it's
larger, heavier and less advanced than this newer model.  What
gets me is that the base model has bluetooth but not cruise
control. Most of the Prius' I see are driven by old coots like
me that couldn't care less about bluetooth but do use cruise
control (I know, Toyota says it's Prii, but who's buying into
that nonsense?). OTOH, Toyota has a demonstrated knack for
creating Prius cruise controls with poor programming that
actually waste gas a lot of the time. Perhaps it's a good thing
that the base model doesn't have a Toyota cruise control so you
can add one of your own and adjust it to yield better results
than Toyota's ham-fisted approach.