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Originally Posted by willravel
Exactly. They give you the whole shebang. You have a 1 in 60,000,000 chance of winning our lotto.
What are the odds that you can actually get your Civic hybrid to get 50 mpg? How many tested even under optimal conditions, can get that? We don't know. All we have is the vague "your mileage may vary". What it should say is "You're probably not going to get 50 mpg. Shoot, you'll be lucky to get 40. Most people get around 32."
FALSE advertising. The EPA is wrong, and Honda is wrong to go along with it.
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I don't think that it is false advertising. False advertising would be that Honda put up those figures, Honda regurgitated them from the EPA.
Results not typical and Your Mileage May Vary. It clearly falls under "puffering" and "salesmanship."
YMMV hasn't changed until recently wherein EPA was pressured to change their methodologies. Their methods were extremely hard to replicate.
Just like people who read the prospectus for any stock offering, there is a chance you may not achieve the same results. Just like there is a chance that you may even meet or exceed them.
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