How Are Your Excellents?

[Bibsy]

New to me on my Auris Hybrid is the "Excellent" you get in the display after a particularly economical drive. I reckon I only get that about one in five drives though.

If your car does that, how often do you get it? And I wish it also did other comments, like "Good", "Ok", "Abysmal", "If He Paid More Attention His Maths Would Improve" and "See Me Afterwards" as well.

[Grumpy Cabbie]

Oh Lord it doesn't do that does it? That's such a Japanese thing. The Nissan Leaf does something similar and the Honda Insight hybrid would grow trees on your dashboard screen.

Maybe I'm a, ok scrub that, I AM a miserable git but I don't want my car congratulating (or not) me for my driving style. Grrrr

[FROSTYBALLS]

Shame is doesn't display comments like:

'What a disaster !!'

'How heavy IS your right foot?'

'Find a petrol station quick !'

[PeteB]

I'd just be happy if Miss Heasman slapped my legs with a ruler again (stop it!)

[barrycoll]

you would be taken into care Pete, and Ms Heasman would lose her computer, and her job

modern times

[PeteB]

In 1963 she didn't even get a manual typewriter, and probably retired ages ago!

[myriagon]

If I take it easy in the summer when the temperature is warmer then I usually get "Excellent". Don't think I've ever seen it in the winter.

[PeteB]

I didn't even know any T Hybrids did this before today!

I did see on one of Jeremy Klaxon's silly reviews on Top Gear of the Nissan Leaf that as he was driving a female voice suddenly announced how many trees the Leaf had saved so far!

[Tbolt]

I get this on my Mk 1 Auris but not as often as I like.

It showed up at the end of my 25 mile commute from work today but I was held up by slow traffic.

As stated earlier it rarely happens in the colder weather.

Gerry

[johalareewi]

Not sure Excellent is the word I would use to describe a particularly slow commute.

[Aceshigh84]

How does this work then? I've never seen it before, do you need to be on a particular screen on the mfd?

[Bibsy]

Mine's a 2011. If yours is the later model, perhaps it doesn't do it.

But on mine, no you don't need to be on a particular screen - when you turn off the power you get for a few seconds the little bar chart showing you the stats for the run, and it appears under that is all.