Toyota to Move to All Hybrid Vehicles By 2012 660
ftumph writes "Toyota has announced that
all their vehicles will be gas-electric hybrids by 2012. The plan is to eliminate the current $3,000 per vehicle additional cost for hybrid engines through mass production."
end of world? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I think... (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not criticising the author of the above, but, after reading the comment, I see now why I prefer using the word petrol instead of gas.
Re:Finally! (Score:2, Funny)
So you are saying 'real' americans are all overcompensating for something?
And, BTW, it certainly _is_ possible with hybrids.
Re:Finally! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Alot has to happen... (Score:5, Funny)
"Americans want big, powerful cars... they'll never buy those little foreign cars." We all know how that went.
Yep. We tried them little furrin cars, and now we all drive 3.5 ton SUVs with 8-cylinder, 5.9 liter, 380 HP engines, huge knobby wheels so big we have to have a step installed just to be able to get in, and all decked out with skid plates, push guards, winches and full-time four-wheel drive.
To the grocery store.
I quake in terror at what our response might be to the introduction of even smaller and more efficient automobiles. Soccer moms in semi tractors?
Re:Not quite true... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Powerballs (Score:2, Funny)
Then there was the .303 Diesel engine for gun nuts (a bandlolier system feeds blank cartridges into the cylinder head and detonates them at TDC).
Tailpipe emissions (Score:4, Funny)