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+-   XR-3: World's 1st build-it-yourself hybrid car-> on Monday September 08 2008, @08:28AM Hybride And The Groom

Submitted by Hybride And The Groom on Monday September 08 2008, @08:28AM
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Hybride And The Groom writes "Building hybrids uses machinery that pollutes the environment. The solution? Ship the parts of a hybrid individually and get your customers to put the car together themselves. That's exactly what Robert Q Riley Enterprises is doing, according to a story on Cnet today, with its XR-3 hybrid. It'll cost you $25,000 for the bits, plus zero dollars in manufacture, I hope. Better yet, cough up $200 for the blueprints and schematics and even build the parts yourself. It's no secret that many hubrid drivers are smug enough as it is. Allowing them to brag about having built the damn cars themselves and we might be entering obscenely smug territory."
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