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What is the fastest way to convince someone to become a hybrid car owner? A 500hp hybrid Porsche that gets 78.4 mile per gallon. That's how. Makes you wonder how much this thing is going to cost.
 
Pretty cool stuff. Hopefully another step towards more efficiency, all around. I'm looking forward to cars like this (hybrids) not being stupid expensive, so average people (maybe one day, even people not interested in a brand new car that comes with a huge amount of debt!) can afford them.
 
If only the production of lithium ion batteries wasn't so innefficient and wasteful. Pretty slick ride though
 
Just came across this after surfing the http://topgear.com site. It's gonna be a rage amongst all the rich and famous who have had to live with the Prius for so long. Good effin luck affording a Porsche or Ferrari eco-car.
 
Dozoy said:
If only the production of lithium ion batteries wasn't so innefficient and wasteful. Pretty slick ride though
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meeeehhhh. if the money is right, who cares how efficient the manufacturing process is? as long as were not ruining the place we live (earth)...
 
Those are some sexy lines on that car.

Sure beats the moonbat prius. Those cars are so ugly especially the ones with the obama and peace sticker editions.
 
If I'm buying a Porsche, I don't care how much the hybrid option adds on to the cost.
 
In before people who'd rather drive something that consumes more gas just to piss off environmentalists.
 
I still won't drive a hybrid. They don't save the environment. It's a scam.
 
twatt said:
I still won't drive a hybrid. They don't save the environment. It's a scam.
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I don't think that's the selling point for this car. Then again it's taking advantage of rich people's stupidity thinking "I'm going green!"
 
What? They took the model designation of the 914-8 built for Ferry, aka 918. Blasphemy.
 
Wonder if that 78mpg is grandma driving around town, or at 65+mph. As far as I know hybrids get like 20mpg at 65+mph.

I'm very happy with my 40+ (not broken in) mpg at any speed VW Golf TDI :D
 
vxspiritxv said:
Wonder if that 78mpg is grandma driving around town, or at 65+mph. As far as I know hybrids get like 20mpg at 65+mph.

I'm very happy with my 40+ (not broken in) mpg at any speed VW Golf TDI :D
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I get around 45-48 mpg cruising at 70 mph with my TDi... But generally I only average about 35mpg in city driving conditions. Good thing 90% of my driving is highway haha.
 
My car does 65 mpg..

In practice i do 30, its all about driving style. and effeciency of the engine of course, but driving style has alot to do.

I got a very aggressive driving style though.
 
krupted said:
meeeehhhh. if the money is right, who cares how efficient the manufacturing process is? as long as were not ruining the place we live (earth)...
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Because inefficient manufacturing processes are a gigantic waste of energy and resources that contribute as much or more pollutants to the environment as the final products can in some cases.

Take ethanol production for example. Biofuels are touted as a leading alternative to fossil fuels but the dirty secrete among agribusiness is that its production (via corn farms) consumes more energy via traditional sources than the resulting ethanol can ever give us back.

Lithium-ion batteries are another example. They're being used for so called green products like hybrid cars but again the energy and resources consumed and eventually waste created from their manufacture in many cases have a very harmful net effect on our environment.
 
AtkinS said:
My car does 65 mpg..

In practice i do 30, its all about driving style. and effeciency of the engine of course, but driving style has alot to do.

I got a very aggressive driving style though.
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Then why exactly...would you get a hybrid? Just to say you have one?
 
Maybe I'm just a geek or slightly retarded but one of my favorite things about most Muscle/sport/exotic cars is the rumble of the engine and the growl they make as they accelerate. I have a '95 Mustang GT, nothing fancy by any ones standards and a car most of us see at least 5 times a day (maybe more depending on where you live) if we even notice. The car has a couple minor after market performance enhancements and even as common as this car is every time I turn it over and hear the rumble of that engine and the growl of that exhaust I'm like a 12 year old kid again wearing a big shit eating grin, if just for a second. As beautiful as the Porsche is and as amazing as it would be to drive I think I would miss that sound way too much to buy one... if I had the money to buy one car in that price range. Unfortunately I don't think I'll ever be in the position to put this opinion to the test.


Grahamkracka said:
Then why exactly...would you get a hybrid? Just to say you have one?
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For most it's ignorance, they just don't think about the process of making something "green". For others as long as it's not them "causing the problem" they don't care and for most? Yes, just to say they have one.
 
I think its ugly. Its body and curves are too "busy"

That thing would be a nightmare for a body shop to work on.
 
hardware_failure said:
I think its ugly. Its body and curves are too "busy"

That thing would be a nightmare for a body shop to work on.
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do you honestly think anybody who purchases the production version of this car (or any supercar for that matter) just takes their car down to bob's bodyshop?
 
vxspiritxv said:
Wonder if that 78mpg is grandma driving around town, or at 65+mph. As far as I know hybrids get like 20mpg at 65+mph.

I'm very happy with my 40+ (not broken in) mpg at any speed VW Golf TDI :D
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Top Gear did a bit about that. A BMW M5 and a Toyota Prius did 10 laps of the track. The Prius was driven flat out and the M5 just had to keep pace. The Prius did 17mpgs and the M5 did 19. All driving style.
 
Chombo said:
Top Gear did a bit about that. A BMW M5 and a Toyota Prius did 10 laps of the track. The Prius was driven flat out and the M5 just had to keep pace. The Prius did 17mpgs and the M5 did 19. All driving style.
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Yep, but I think it was a BMW M3. It's in Season 11 of "Top Gear". Jeremy Clarkson basically concluded that it's not so much the car but how it's driven that is the bigger determining factor of its fuel efficiency.
 
The commercial slogan:

Because its always nice when you can have your cake and eat it too ;).
 
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