We are saved! GM announces Hybrid Escalade!!!

[NYC_SKP]

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I'm speechless.

Will someone please express the outrage for me?

[PBS Poll-435]

1. It runs on foreign oil and kittens on hamster-wheels.

W00t for hybrids!


:grr:

[Maat]

2. Oh, yeah, we're saved!

I'll just get rid of my Prius (that gets 46-50 MPG) right now!

:rofl:

Well, it would be funny, if it weren't tragic.

[sakura]

6. But this one gets 18 mpg!

[Zachstar]

12. OMGWTFBBQ!!!

18?! WOOT!

[lapfog_1]

3. Here, this might make you fell better.

http://www.aptera.com

[ben_meyers]

4. Once again Dylan is the voice of a generation

[sakura]

5. Wow. That is disgusting.

Simply disgusting. I had to google it to be sure it wasn't photoshopped.

:puke:

“Where’s the global warming? It’s freezing here.”

[MountainLaurel]

30. I think I threw up in my mouth

:wtf:

[tom_paine]

32. OMG! Irony... choking... me... too... strong...

*gasp*

There is no irony anymore. THERE. IS. NO. IRONY.

Wow. Speechless.

:puke:

Glad you brought that to everyone's attention.

[wtmusic]

7. Well they gotta sell the damn things somehow.

They're probably sending them back to Detroit for some hokey retrofit so they can legally use the term "hybrid". Anything to get them off the lot.

[amandabeech]

31. Ford makes a legit hybrid Escape, a smallish SVU.

Gets better mileage if you do a lot of city driving. It's a for-real hybrid.

The Escalade probably uses the same technology.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

8. and yet I am the douchebag for...

opting not to buy an American car

[liberal N proud]

9. Evidence of how out of touch these automakers are

Just keep producing those behemoth road dinosaurs and soon GM too will go the way of the dinosaurs

[DrDan]

10. inSanity has been talking about it for months . . .

what's with that partnership - sean and GM

[Zachstar]

11. You've GOT to be kidding me!

Atleast tell me it is a plug in... right?

The greenwashing needs to end.

[Name removed]

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[NYC_SKP]

14. Please forgive the giant graph.

I tested several links from the wikipedia page. If it's really annoying and anyone can provide a smaller image link, I'll edit.

Note the CAFE standard (red) graph; dead flat from 1990 on. Yeah, peace and prosperity, right. Shortsighted, quick fix, corporate-bought, bullshit ever since since Carter is more like it, IMHO. Fuckers.

[Greyskye]

16. Too small?

I imported the large graph into Photobucket, and used the 'reduce to' size option on import. I used 320x240 - might be a bit too small though.

[NYC_SKP]

17. Thanks, Greyskye, but my editing time expired...crap! nt

[Zachstar]

19. Alert you own post and ask them to remove the image

[kestrel91316]

15. So instead of 10 mpg it gets 16?

This sort of thinking is why GM will die a well-deserved death.

Is this the automotive version of "let them eat cake"???

[Zachstar]

18. Amen!

American Auto is just starting to suck. Sorry Union folks but the companies you are with just arent cutting it.

[Finishline42]

21. Guilt reaction by GM Exec's.

When is the last time any of them drove a small car for any length of time?

GM builds a hybrid and it's for people that could care less except to show their friends at the country club - "See I'm GREEN".

They build an Electric Car and it's a $40k sports car - how many of those do they think they are going to sell the Volt to?

Then they will use their stupid marketing decisions as an excuse not to build anymore while more and more union workers pay the price of unemployment.

Toyota's got the market right - low $20k and you sell a million.

Build an EV for under $20k and for people that already have another car for long hauls - it would sell like hotcakes.

[wtmusic]

26. "Build an EV for under $20k for people that already have another car"

Exactly. Someone isn't paying attention.

[One_Life_To_Give]

20. At probably $70,000+ Base Price

If you can afford the vehical actual mileage is not a concern.

[Kolesar]

22. A link would be nice...eom

[NYC_SKP]

24. Sure, here.

http://www.cadillac.com/escaladehybrid/

Caveat: EPA estimates are often off by as much as 50%. I recall and article mentioned that a Jeep Liberty rated at 22 actually got 11 when tested by CU. No link for that, but it's out there.

[Kolesar]

25. 20 city/ 21 highway - this looks like the Chevy Suburban/GMC Tahoe product

[CRF450]

27. I call bullshit on that claim.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that the old EPA estimates were more accurate. Every vehicle I have driven have gotten right at or better than the old estimates. I dont drive like a granny either.

[CRF450]

23. Are they gonna build hybrid pick up trucks yet?

Some of us who needs a truck would really like the 20+mpg. I know I would being that mine gets 16mpg.

[LTR]

28. The Chevy Silverado come in a hybrid (nt)

[End Of The Road]

29. Bu..bu..but...... GM HAS the technology to build a good EV

They already did it and destroyed it. Good range, good speed, and the final batteries developed for it outlasted the life of the car. What is keeping them from bringing it back?