Even the SMART car?

a hybrid option is awesome but some of those cars with the hybrid option wont even make sense.
a 300C hybrid? naw. someones gonna pimp it and blow some **** up.
a Pacifica hybrid? still a heavy vehicle. mph improves like 3 and charge like 10,000more
a Crossfire hybrid? maybe. Tesla is on to something with their all electric roadster
a Caravan\town and country hybrid? only for the moms whos kids have pocket protectors.
i think the sebring and the pt cruiser would be great though. but thats about it.

Dodge Durango hybrid. Why start with the ugliest car from Chrysler.. don’t they want to help improve sales? Why not a Grand Cherokee hybrid instead?

more evidence that all car brands are afraid of China. JOKE. Was i the only person who didn’t hear about the new Carbon-dioxide regulation changes????? P.S. if anyone has any links to any related articles please share. Thanx.

ummm, a hybrid viper? what?

^lol. Will the next SLR be a hybrid too?

Introducing the all new Hybrid Challenger for 08. For the environmentally conscious redneck.

oh yeah what about their freightliner division then?

Presenting… the all new hybrid Mclaren-Mercedes F1 car. For eco-friendly motorsport. At every tyre change, everyone in the surrounding are gets electrocuted.

Many London residents have been thinking of taping a 9 volt battery to their windscreen to call their car a hybrid and so avoid the Congestion Charge.
As for the hybrid viper, I heard it can go on forever. The batteries are recharged by excess wheelspin.

Hybrid Dodge Ram; with bright green paint scheme saying: “Love our Earth”. Lifetime supply of Save the Whale stickers. THE only 4×4 with NO hippies chained to the radiator grille…promise.

How in the hell are they going to put a battery pack in an SLK? It’ll have negative trunk space.

Cue the ignorant, negative comments…right about…NOW

dang no more man that was good, some of theese comments were just too funny.
finally chrysler is getting into the game, definately make a hybrid nitro and caliber it will help sales,full sized hybrids (like the silverado) just dont work out.

Don’t mind if I do Lambo…

Starting with, This is the dumbest idea I have ever heard. They clearly have no contact with their market base. Wait, haha, I made a joke. They don’t have a market base. Obviously the king of them all, a hybrid Dodge Ram, is quite ridiculous. Not to mention a hybrid Wrangler, hybrid Grand Cherokee, or really, hybrid anything. Here’s a link detailing a comparison in energy usage, manufacturing, and environmental impact between a Hummer and a Prius. The results may surpise some of you.
http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/editorial_item.asp?NewsID=188

Oops, i lied Lambo. I made an intelligent, informed comment instead.

yeah piablo i tripped out when i read that article, that same question has been burning in my head for a while. I always wondered about the batteries, wether theyre toxic in a fire, economical to make, all the extra wiring and electric motors need extra copper, nickle, zink etc etc etc. just the amount of moving parts makes me worry about long term reliability, but i never considered the prius was good for only 100,000 miles. very interesting article.

Piablo, not that I discount the content of your link entirely… But come on, a college newspaper editorial is the best you can come up with to discredit hybrids? If you’re looking for real credibility, why not dig up the study referenced in that college newspaper editorial?

When you find it, you might end up at:

http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/

Notice what a professional looking website this firm has. Let’s take a look at their “about us” link. I see something interesting there:

“Clients include major automobile manufacturers”

No way that could introduce bias into their study, could it? I’d say it’s at least worth considering the possibility…

Hybrids are for losers. When are they going to get that through their heads and start producing more Diesels?

Piablo, that was a great article. i will be sharing it with others, thanks.
Random Jerk, i saw little reason to doubt any of it. the reference to “clients include major automobile manufacturers” also included many other clients. what manufacturer are you incenuating influenced the study? even though a toyota (the prius) was the ‘target’ of the study, another toyota (the xB) was highly recommended at the end.
hybrids seem like a good alternative but not a great one. and some hilarious comments above about DaimlerChrysler. it will be interesting to see how they wiggle out of that comment

mispelled insinuating above

Random Jerk – Point understood, but I find no problem with a university news site. It’s an editorial anyway, so no matter the source, take an editorial with a grain of salt. That goes for the NY Times, Ann Coulter, or the Student Sentinel. I happen to agree with this one and found it more interesting than the source survey.

In terms of credibility for CNW Research, the source of that research, I don’t think this is that type of bias. JD Powers is in business with automotive clients as well, a very reputable firm known for it’s quality reports. The companies pay firms such as JD Powers to research certain aspects of the industry. In return, those companies get copies of the reports to do with as they seem fit. If there were bias in these firms, companies like Toyota and GM would not buy into it. I get your point, but I don’t think it applies here.

CTS Driver – I know what you mean. I think there will be quite a few more articles like this coming out in the near future. I honestly think there will be a hybrid backlash so to speak and all of these companies that are a day late and dollar short will get hosed pretty good. The battery powered hybrid technology has now been around long enough to start laying out the real facts beyond the feel good sentiments powering the market today. They are not environmentally sound, and they do not save the money they intended to. What’s left?

Csyclone – Glad to hear

Great! Honda and Toyota must be quaking in their boots, given they’re now on the 3rd or 4th generation hybrids. Perhaps Chrysler will license the glorified alternators that GM tauts as ‘hybrids’…

CTS Driver; whats wong with full sized hybrids ie Chevy Silverado, surely they have the most room for improvment in fuel economy

my buddy has one but the gas mileage is no different at all for now and thats the reason he bought it in the first place, but one good point about the truck is the face that when we all go camping he gets to plug his lights and electric blanket into his truck, damn sissy. when its bones cold out im a little jealous thouhg.:)

Why do we need hybrids again? Oil is a renewable resource as proven by the recent gulf find and global warming is a farce as any scientist worth their salt knows. So why are we doing this again?

Hybrid PT might be ok. It only gets 25-26MPG hwy now! If it were a “real” hybrid, 40-44% MPG increases, like some others have… that could be 35-38 MPG hwy, maybe similar City( hbrid Civic is 50 hwy/51 city)?
PT could get say 37 city, 36 hwy…. and nomore than 20K, fairly loaded… I would consider one.