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Herded six of the Carsales staff on a Prius drive yesterday. Each member of staff drove Prudence from Chez Carsales in a giant loop from Power Street through Kew Junction up to the Eastern Freeway, off at Hoddle Street, left into Bridge Road and back to the office via Burwood Road. If you know Melbourne's inner suburbs, you'll appreciate it was a pretty decent mix of traffic conditions, including the 40km/h zone along Bridge Road in Richmond, where Prudence literally remained in EV mode for five or six minutes and therefore didn't emit as much as a schmick of CO2 for that period.
Responses from the staff were 'mixed' in the sense that there was a broad spectrum of opinion, ranging from excitement about the possibilities the car represented to take-it-or-leave-it.
Fuel consumption has been hovering around the 4.6/4.7L/100km mark.
Prudence may not have the presence of a Maserati GranTurismo, but she is being recognised around the neighbourhood. Someone from up the street asked the wife whether the Prius was the car with the solar cells in the roof.
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