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Old 05-28-2009, 10:12 PM   #9 (permalink)
RobertSmalls
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Honda just has to find room for the battery and related electronics, then offering a hybrid is as easy as offering a different engine option. That fact probably explains why carmakers are fond of promising that "six years from now, every car in our lineup will have a hybrid option".

If the Fit hybrid were to come out around $16-17k, that would space out the Fit, Insight, and Civic hybrids nicely in price. It would also spur Toyota to investigate dropping a Prius powertrain into a Yaris or iQ. :-D
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