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Toyota to Move to All Hybrid Vehicles By 2012

Posted by michael on from the no-flying-cars dept.

ftumph writes "Toyota has announced that all their vehicles will be gas-electric hybrids by 2012. The plan is to eliminate the current $3,000 per vehicle additional cost for hybrid engines through mass production."

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  1. end of world? by murat · · Score: 5, Funny

    2012? Isn't that the year the Mayan calendar ends?

  2. Re:I think... by Zathruss · · Score: 2, Funny
    ..."the gas leaks out relatively slowly and pools. Gases do not behave that way."


    I'm not criticising the author of the above, but, after reading the comment, I see now why I prefer using the word petrol instead of gas.
  3. Re:Finally! by JanneM · · Score: 2, Funny

    These aren't possible with hybrids, at this point. When they are, then you'll see American vehicles with hybrid engines. But not beforehand, if they're real Americans.

    So you are saying 'real' americans are all overcompensating for something?

    And, BTW, it certainly _is_ possible with hybrids.

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  4. Re:Finally! by mirko · · Score: 1, Funny

    You want a car that is Fast and Furious, are you a Rice Boy? ;-)

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  5. Re:Finally! by c.derby · · Score: 5, Funny

    damn, when did denis leary start posting on /. ? ;)

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  6. Re:Finally! by phuturephunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    "These aren't possible with hybrids, at this point. When they are, then you'll see American vehicles with hybrid engines. But not beforehand, if they're real Americans." . . please now . . . I'm quite happy with the size of my penis, I don't need a small block chevy to give me the warm and fuzzy . . . ;) . .

  7. Re:Alot has to happen... by swillden · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Americans want big, powerful cars... they'll never buy those little foreign cars." We all know how that went.

    Yep. We tried them little furrin cars, and now we all drive 3.5 ton SUVs with 8-cylinder, 5.9 liter, 380 HP engines, huge knobby wheels so big we have to have a step installed just to be able to get in, and all decked out with skid plates, push guards, winches and full-time four-wheel drive.

    To the grocery store.

    I quake in terror at what our response might be to the introduction of even smaller and more efficient automobiles. Soccer moms in semi tractors?

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  8. Re:Not quite true... by forgoil · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know a very fine way of loosing the very silence when you stop. Install a proper stereo in the car ;) You will be playing louder than the engine at all points, thus not having to bother about hearing the engine or not ;))

  9. Re:Powerballs by panurge · · Score: 2, Funny
    This is almost as funny as the nuclear powered pogo stick. (gas strut with a lump of plutonium at each end, as they come together on bounce the heat produced increases the gas pressure so you bounce higher each time).

    Then there was the .303 Diesel engine for gun nuts (a bandlolier system feeds blank cartridges into the cylinder head and detonates them at TDC).

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  10. Tailpipe emissions by Wise+Dragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now if only I could reduce *my* tailpipe emissions. Maybe I should stop going to taco bell.