Who is going to be the first one to trade-in for one of these?
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From: Burleson, Texas
Originally Posted by 02XLT4X4
Hybrids will help until they get hydrogen up and running though.
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From: St. Charles, MO
Originally Posted by jamzwayne
What is the answer?
I'd take a hybrid right now. My poor fiddy needs a vacation. 2004 F150 with 85,000+ miles on her. Poor girl.
Anyway, I have to work a week and a half just to pay for gas to get me to and from work for the month. Fuel costs are killing me. The way it stands ATM, I will either have to find a job in my home town and take a nasty pay cut, suck it up and be broke, or get a beater (for free) that is good on gas.
I'd take a hybrid right now. My poor fiddy needs a vacation. 2004 F150 with 85,000+ miles on her. Poor girl.
Anyway, I have to work a week and a half just to pay for gas to get me to and from work for the month. Fuel costs are killing me. The way it stands ATM, I will either have to find a job in my home town and take a nasty pay cut, suck it up and be broke, or get a beater (for free) that is good on gas.
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From: Burleson, Texas
Originally Posted by Zaairman
I'm guessing that you drive all/mostly highway right? Only time a hybrid will really have an advantage over a gasoline motor is in stop and go driving.
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Originally Posted by Zaairman
I'm guessing that you drive all/mostly highway right? Only time a hybrid will really have an advantage over a gasoline motor is in stop and go driving.
Then Fark it!
I'm screwed.
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From: Granger, IN
"Long-haul drivers might benefit less from the hybrid system, but should appreciate the 26-gallon fuel tank, which enables a theoretical cruising range of more than 500 miles. "
Notice the word "theoretical" as that sounds like a sales gimick. I got a 25 gallon tank and could hit a "theoretical" range of 500 miles if I can dictate my mpg in my truck as is and I don't have nor need a hybrid system.
I bet a fully loaded 4WD version of that thing is easily $50,000.
Notice the word "theoretical" as that sounds like a sales gimick. I got a 25 gallon tank and could hit a "theoretical" range of 500 miles if I can dictate my mpg in my truck as is and I don't have nor need a hybrid system.
I bet a fully loaded 4WD version of that thing is easily $50,000.
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From: So. Texas
Todays hybrids are not only inefficient but they are a gimmick at best. If you live in the south where it's hot, in stop and go traffic the engine will be screaming under the hood at 3500rpms for the A/C compressor and recharging of the battery. If you live up north, the motor runs to maintain heat for keeping the inside warm. A Toyota Prius, which is the world leader in hybrid technolgy, gets around 42 mpg hiway in the real world. The VW diesel will go much farther on a gallon of fuel and a Honda 4 banger will equal it anyday. But you don't have batteries to replace which are EXPENSIVE. The GM truck hybrid is a joke at best. I can only assume they won't sell many and those that are sold, the folks has better like them as I can't imagine anybody buying a 5 year old hybrid and paying any money for it. Ford is not about to make a fool of themselves. It would appear that they are going after the direct injection, lean burn technology engines. Hows about a V6 gas making 400 HP/400 lbs torque in an F-150 that can get 24-26 town and close to 30 hiway? They're playing with it. I'm not sure about being emmissions compliant and all of those issues but it's on the test stands.