My mate is a private hire driver in London. He has a Prius and gets 58-62mph running around local. A Yaris is smaller and lighter so I would expect you to exceed his mpg. The Prius has now done 195,000 miles in 8 years. Apart from service items and brake pads only 2things have needed fixing. Electric water pump, aToyota part £230 fitted. Changed at 120,000 miles. Hybrid battery, Toyota part £1400 fitted. Changed at 175,000. Never broken down in 8 years. Still run with issues. He found a Toyota specialist in Norbury just out side Croydon.
I save loads on petrol. Get about 70-75mpg. My record for a 10 minute journey was 125mpg. But that is conservative driving. Even when harsh accelerating etc I get 45-50.
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That sounds amazing stigma! What year is yours?
I used to drive one of these a few years ago. It was decent in the city and did return good fuel economy but nothing hugely better than a car with a modern small engine and stop-start technology to be honest.
If you need to take it on a longer trip I found the seats to be very uncomfortable, the CVT gearbox to be noisy and perform poorly with slow acceleration on motorways and mpg was nothing special in those conditions.
Usual good Toyota reliability however. In the time I had it, nothing was replaced beyond the usual wear and tear replacement parts you’d expect.
Have you given consideration to going electric? Something like a Zoe? Similar size but will be more efficient and nicer to drive. Good in the city but very capable of more if necessary. And no worrying about emissions zone charges popping up and getting increasingly strict up and down the country you may have to pay in a hybrid but not in a full EV.
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Thanks KodaBear not sure I'm ready for a switch over yet, what year was your hybrid?
I have a 2018 Yaris Hybrid. Doing about 57mpg mostly on short city trip these days. The only downside I could think of is a bit noisy on motorway.
According to honest john real mpg, there are no difference in mpg with auto petrol and petrol hybrid for yaris 2011-2020
Best asking this on a proper forum like on Reddit if you want advice
Expanding ULEZ type zones is a worry for everyone. But like road tax, the government will just retroactively charge everyone or go to per mile charging. They want their pound of flesh from us all. I have a euro 6 diesel, I know that nothing will change for 4 years. This is my logic. Two points, one is euro 7 comes out in 2025 which could change everything but not at that point. Point two, disabled drivers with cars that did not meet euro 6 ie diesels were given until 2027 to get compliant cars. So 4 years before any big shake ups. Who knows.
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sorted byHe has a Prius and gets 58-62mph running around local.
A Yaris is smaller and lighter so I would expect you to exceed his mpg.
The Prius has now done 195,000 miles in 8 years.
Apart from service items and brake pads only 2things have needed fixing.
Electric water pump, aToyota part £230 fitted. Changed at 120,000 miles.
Hybrid battery, Toyota part £1400 fitted. Changed at 175,000.
Never broken down in 8 years.
Still run with issues.
He found a Toyota specialist in Norbury just out side Croydon.
If you need to take it on a longer trip I found the seats to be very uncomfortable, the CVT gearbox to be noisy and perform poorly with slow acceleration on motorways and mpg was nothing special in those conditions.
Usual good Toyota reliability however. In the time I had it, nothing was replaced beyond the usual wear and tear replacement parts you’d expect.
Have you given consideration to going electric? Something like a Zoe? Similar size but will be more efficient and nicer to drive. Good in the city but very capable of more if necessary. And no worrying about emissions zone charges popping up and getting increasingly strict up and down the country you may have to pay in a hybrid but not in a full EV.
Doing about 57mpg mostly on short city trip these days.
The only downside I could think of is a bit noisy on motorway.
According to honest john real mpg, there are no difference in mpg with auto petrol and petrol hybrid for yaris 2011-2020
But like road tax, the government will just retroactively charge everyone or go to per mile charging.
They want their pound of flesh from us all.
I have a euro 6 diesel, I know that nothing will change for 4 years.
This is my logic.
Two points, one is euro 7 comes out in 2025 which could change everything but not at that point.
Point two, disabled drivers with cars that did not meet euro 6 ie diesels were given until 2027 to get compliant cars.
So 4 years before any big shake ups.
Who knows.