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Originally Posted by elhigh
Obviously the hybrids make sense to the companies or they wouldn't build them. Obviously the hybrids make sense to the customers or they wouldn't buy them.
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Or are companies just building hybrids to meet ever tighter regulations? The way European regs are shaping up, ICE's will soon be a thing of the past. We now have Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren building hybrids that beat Prius economy in official testing (they're doing it in part to cheat the system - we can be confident no owners will be seeing 60MPG from their hypercars real world).
As I've shown with the Gen 1 Insight, a car doesn't have to make sense (whether your motivation is financial or environmental) for people to buy it. Even against the more practical Civic, the Insight would have to cover over 1 million miles to break even.