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Article: Hybrid hype: the basic disconnect of luxury hybrids (especially if they're SUVs).(Green Living Deluxe)(Product/service evaluation)
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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When it comes to hybrid vehicles, there's only one big winner: Toyota. The company has 80% of the U.S. hybrid market, and the majority of those sales are the brilliantly designed Prius.
The four-door Prius caught on both because of its incredible fuel economy--48 miles per gallon (mpg) in the city and 45 mpg on the highway--and because its unique styling makes an environmental statement about its owner. It looks like a hybrid. Unfortunately, many of the other hybrids on the market look like what they are: big SUVs. And that makes a statement, too.
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