GM Shouldve coined the "mild hybrids" in a different way

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jonathan Rohr @ May 1 2007, 02:09 PM) [snapback]433484[/snapback]</div>

Hey, don't knock kitty cats. What we now know as the common house cat is what made civilization possible:

When the ancient Egyptians first invented wheat farming, they found themselves, for the first time ever, with the potential to produce enough food in one growing season to feed themselves for the entire year, creating free time for the endeavors that built civilization. But thy could not have stored that grain from one harvest to the next without some way to prevent rats from fouling it and rendering it useless. It was the common house cat who kept the rats away from the grain, and made civilization possible, which is why the Egyptians worshipped cats as gods.

Superstitious Christians (which is to say virtually all of them) in the middle ages were not so smart: They declared cats to be demons and agents of Satan and systematically killed them, so that they had no way to control rats, and when the plague arrived, it wiped out 3/4 of the population. Not to mention the general filth of a rat-infested country.

Next time you think bad thoughts about cats, think of what it would have been like to live in rat-infested, plague-ravaged Europe of the middle ages.

Okay. Now back to the discussion of what GM should have called their worthless cars that shut off at stoplights.

 

Daniel, that was by far the best "hijack" of a thread...ever!! Love my kitties even more now...

So the GM hybrids...let's see what the "market" will do to them. I feel hybrids competing with/being compared to HSD have ALOT to overcome...efficiency, simplicity, emissions, performance, perceived quality (REAL quality, too). The marketing is there since Toyota took this leap over SEVEN years ago (in the US). Catchup with something less is meaningless...even more so with vaporware hybrids. I'm NOT a GM fan and never will be. The movie Who killed the electric car made sure of that.