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Hi All , Just wanted to say hi, i'm an ex IQ owner, loved the little thing, great car. Now looking at getting myself an Auris Hybrid. Chris

Hello Jan - welcome to Toyota Owners Club

Welcome to TOC :)

Second time attempt then, lesst u got it sorted, now the fitting part to do! Lol :-)

There is definitely more to the hybrid/diesel debate than just bottom line MPG. I have bought new Mk2, 3, 4 and 5 Golf diesels, but before buy the new Mk7 I fortunately saw the Light.....The Oriental Rising Sun. (Enter T Spirit Prius from stage left) Over 2 years of mixed miles, the balance being Motorway trips, the overall mpg is just over 60mpg, but none of the Golfs ever cracked 50mpg But the main substance of the Prius, is the car's deep outbreathe, and then Zen silence during the ever increasing motorway queues and traffic jams, when all those around are clutching/declutching, franticaally starting/stopping for just 10 meters of travel. If the car came with a blood pressure guage, you may even get a Prius Precription from your GP.

43mpg? You have something wrong with your car. I get shy of 45 mpg in a 3.7 mile commute in heavy traffic on a car with 80,000 miles and a hard life. The car shouldn't be 'running' on ev mode at all. I assume you mean it's running on electric when it first sets off. If you try and force the car into the special EV mode by pressing the button, then it's the worst thing you could be doing for economy. Initially you will get 100mpg until the battery runs out after a mile or so and then the engine will run and charge the battery. That is much much more fuel inefficient than just driving the car normally. Just drive the car as normal. Just drive it, don't hammer it, don't thrash it, but equally don't try to make maximum use of the electric function as you'll end up being counter productive. Regarding 66 mpg. That again ain't great for the car. My knackered old Prius will get 75+ when cruising at 50 mph on the flat with the a/c and heat on. I wonder if you've had your car serviced? Are you over 10,000 miles? I would hazard a bet that the garage may inadvertently put 5w30 oil in instead of the much more expensive 0w20 oil. When this has happened to me I struggled to get the car to get 59 mpg try as hard as I might with all my hypermiling experience. Once 0w20 was correctly replaced, the car was getting 75+ mpg when I tried. The dealers seem very reluctant to remember to use the more expensive 0w20 oil, despite billing you for it! My last 80k service in October the dealers put 5w30 in, despite me reminding them not to. They billed me for 0w20 but and strenuously said they'd put it in, but I know as the economy bombs, as does performance but the engine sounds smoother. The chief tech drained it and put 0w20 in and immediately the economy went back to what it should. Good luck.