Originally Posted by evoWALO
If you watched the 5th Gear review conducted by Jason Plato on the Lexus hybrid you'd know that a hybrid sports car is really exciting proposition. If legistlation's in place to give tax breaks to these models expect a lot of happy performance nuts.
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Yes I did see that episode and yeah I guess tax breaks would be good for people in the UK. But again I have been hearing about Toyota doing a hybrid Mr2 and other sports cars since 2004... So again it’s not like its some big surprise. Toyota is going all hybrid, here is an article about it from last september-
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/au...erland&emc=rss
"FRANKFURT, Sept. 13 (Bloomberg News) - The Toyota Motor Corporation said this week that all its vehicles would eventually be run by hybrid gasoline-electric motors, as record fuel prices curb demand for conventional automobiles.
"In the future, the cars you see from Toyota will be 100 percent hybrid," Kazuo Okamoto, executive vice president, told reporters in Frankfurt Monday, without giving a specific timetable."
"Mr. Watanabe told investors he could not give a time frame for halving the price premium. Nihon Keizai reported on its Web site Tuesday that he gave a target of 2010."
"We believe that in 10 years the world will be filled with hybrids," Mr. Okamoto said."