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Originally Posted by COcyclist
Hybrids are officially cool.
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With practical benefits such as exemption from the London congestion charge and access to the central district of Madrid without any restriction based on air quality enforced for non-hybrid vehicles, it became an incentive even for premium automakers to move toward hybrids. And since most supercars are now fitted with either automatic or automated-manual transmissions, which have been more suitable for hybrid vehicles than manuals, the transition from a mere tree-huggers' deal into something more acceptable even among customers who didn't really care about that "sustainability" marketing approach and eventually objected to that as taking away most of the pleasure in the driving experience. Well, some 5 years ago I was much more unfavorable to hybrids, but nowadays it wouldn't surprise me to see Toyota replacing most of its conventional automatic transmissions with the HSD system...