Hybrids

Hybrid vs Truck Sales

Mike Kruzeniski on Hybrid vs Truck sales over the past decade: To concentrate on the significant change in purchases in the last decade, I made another graphic that focuses on just 1999 and 2009. I also looked in to the percentage of total vehicle market share for the two categories. The relative vehicle market share [...]

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2011 Touareg Hybrid Price Not Popular

It turns out I’m not the only one who is concerned with the stratospheric pricing of the 2011 Touareg Hybrid. Take a look at what RideLust had to say: It looks like VW is again pricing the 2011 Touareg beyond the reach of the masses, especially in hybrid form. The Touareg Hybrid, Autoblog tells us, will [...]

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2011 VW Touareg Hybrid to start at $61,380

Volkswagen has slapped a price tag on the 2011 Touareg Hybrid, and it’s quite disturbing. If you want this piece of German machinery, complete with the NIMH battery pack, electric motor, and 20 / 25 MPG ratings, be prepared to drop over sixty large. Over sixty thousand dollars for a Volkswagen, no matter how loaded, [...]

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2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Priced Right

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When you take a conventionally powered car and add a hybrid powertrain, there’s a price premium. A huge price premium – that’s just the way things are. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? The engineers are Ford have been wondering the same thing. Why does there have to be a $5k [...]

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2011 Honda Fit Hybrid Price Rumor

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If you believe a Reuters‘ source, the 2011 Honda Fit Hybrid will start at an astonishingly low price – $16,750. Considering that the conventional Fit starts at $14,900 , you can call me a skeptic. Such a low base price would put the Hybrid Fit about $4000 less than Honda’s own Fit-based Insight. Some of [...]

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2011 Lexus CT 200h Spy Shots

Before I even get started, I really, really hope that CT 200h isn’t the final name for this car. Even in this era of alphabet soup car names, CT 200h is decidedly forgettable and meaningless. Moving on…. The 2011 CT 200h is a compact, 4 door (some say 5 door) hatchback hybrid. Under the hood [...]

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Toyota FT-CH Hybrid Concept

For years, the Toyota Prius has been the fuel economy champion in America.  Well, Toyota is trying to change that, since apparently no one else can.  (Honda, I’m looking at you.) Introduced at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show is the Toyota FT-CH Concept. Surely if this vehicle makes it to production, that awful name will [...]

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Honda Skydeck Concept

You may or may not be looking at inspiration for the next generation Honda Odyssey when you look at the Skydeck Concept vehicle. I say may or may not because, well, it’s a little out there. Compared to the minivans of today, the Skydeck is downright sexy. It’s bold and stylish when compared to the [...]

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