Sunday, April 23, 2006

Repost From Wired

Not every hybrid is going to be a winner, and the Accord may be headed for extinction because it offers no fuel economy over the base model and costs $12,000 more.

Gee, I wonder why people aren't buying them? What was Honda thinking -- that a little extra acceleration and the "hybrid tag" would blind consumers?

I did a double take when I saw that the MPG ratings for the hybrid Accord (25/34) is almost identical to the automatic standard version (24/34), and LESS than that of the manual transmission (26/34). Someone in Honda marketing has serious dain bramage.


In similar news, the Black Eyed Peas have their own custom branded Civic hybrid model.

4 comments:

Natalie said...

Good find. I love the truth.

. said...

Too bad that they didn't point out that the hybrid create half the pollution of the standard model? Also Honda markets the Accord as an ecologicical performance option.

On a side note. Memoranda is side Honda states that this whole Gas/eletric hybrid trend is just that. A trend. Most of Honda's alternative fuel R&D dollars are going into fuel cell technology.

And yes I am biased, and informed.

Ben Marvin said...

Yeah, but who's gonna drive a car that more expensive with nothing extra except less emmissions??? A smug environmentalist asshole.

. said...

Like every other idiot hybrid drive.