Fast Fauxward
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The race to build the first "green" sports car gets another hype injection this week, with Honda due to unveil a hybrid-powered concept vehicle aimed at "eco-conscious but hedonistic motorists who want the pleasures of driving without the guilty conscience." Don’t get us wrong: we’re all for 400-horsepower personal amusement park rides. But just because clever
Japanese engineers manage to work in hybrid overdrive doesn’t mean that every tire squeal isn’t powered by burning hydrocarbons. Just (slightly) fewer of them. Optional irony: hybrid magic comes mainly from recycled braking energy. So the best mileage jollies come from stop-and-go city driving, not out playing games with the CHP.
In fact, lead-footed carbon foes can already reserve their dream road rocket, an all-electric, 0-60 in four seconds Tesla, (which unlike either of the Japanese entries is actually promised for delivery a year from now). Plenty time to get some fat SunPower panels up on the garage roof. Then you can rip things up to your heart’s content without combusting so much as a single fossil (or a kernel of Iowa’s pride).
Just watch the tire burning, please.
Japanese engineers manage to work in hybrid overdrive doesn’t mean that every tire squeal isn’t powered by burning hydrocarbons. Just (slightly) fewer of them. Optional irony: hybrid magic comes mainly from recycled braking energy. So the best mileage jollies come from stop-and-go city driving, not out playing games with the CHP.
In fact, lead-footed carbon foes can already reserve their dream road rocket, an all-electric, 0-60 in four seconds Tesla, (which unlike either of the Japanese entries is actually promised for delivery a year from now). Plenty time to get some fat SunPower panels up on the garage roof. Then you can rip things up to your heart’s content without combusting so much as a single fossil (or a kernel of Iowa’s pride).
Just watch the tire burning, please.
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