davidgrey50 -
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Originally Posted by davidgrey50
There was an article in Road & Track way back (c. 1973/1975?) about Toyota's 'Engine Automatic Stop-Start System'. When the car stopped for more than a second or two the engine turned off, re-starting automatically (If I recall correctly) when the foot came off the brake. The demonstrator (IIRC again) was a Corona.
And then Toyota spends an entire generation beavering away on this and myriad other technologies and we got the Prius. Almost like they knew the future was coming someday.
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I read that Toyota made the Prius as a reaction to the
American PNGV program. The Big-3 achieved great MPG *concept* cars and then abandoned the technology. GM created the 80 mpg Precept, Ford created the 72 mpg Prodigy, and Chrysler created the 72 mpg ESX-3 :
Toyota and Honda created hybrids out of *fear* that we were going to pass them by. Shame on us.
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