Toyota working on Yaris Hybrid

[mr. poopyhead]

Originally Posted by ham

I agree. A friend of mine has a Golf TDI 50-55 MPG. The Yaris at over 1000 lbs lighter should have no problem beating that. SO YES.......F the hybrid and give me diesel and the veggie mods to follow.

i used to share a 1992 TDI jetta with my brother (it's still running strong with 300k km on it)... the thing is a complete rustbucket. it EASILY outdoes my yaris in fuel efficiency and weighs probably twice as much...

i don't know what the obsession with hybrids is in north america... all this talk of "green" and crap. are 100s of kilograms of toxic, costly and polluting Li-poly batteries really "green"? is the decreased service life really "green"?

sure a diesel may spew out more particulate pollution and such, but the total environmental cost is lower than any hybrid, especially when we talk about alternative sources of diesel.

north america needs to get with the program and embrace diesel like europe has, instead of falling for all this green marketing with hybrid and electric plug-ins... not that they aren't good technologies. but as of now, their total environmental impact isn't as minimal as people make them out to be.