Speakeasy forum: Honda drops Accord Hybrid

... acceleration with gas performance. I had a fiat spider back in the early Eighties that would go fast and got 40 MPG but it was an extremely light car. Honda was trying to take a midsize sedan and give it some giddy up along with extreme fuel economy.

Certainly an oxymoron of a concept. Kind of like putting an electric motor in a Doge Challenger R/T circa 1972. You're left asking... "what's the point"?

That sure sounds like an endorsement.

I don't think I'll trade in my Mustang quite yet.

It just gives the rich a faster car.

I never said it wasn't faster. I did question the use of 'supposedly faster'.

A $30,000 plus car certainly sounds rich to me, but I guess some folks don't see that as a high price. While the acceleration is nothing to write home about, advertising an 'earth saver' with horsepower (253) and acceleration numbers sounds perfectly hypocritical to me. It's the kind of mentality that buys carbon 'credits' while jetting around the world.

Actually, it's quite predictable.

As I understand it, buyers preferred the Toyota Camry hybrid over the Accord one.

An aside..... there are a couple of people in my city who had their cars modified to run on the discarded deep fat frying oil at restaurants. Free. People say it sure smells good when they drive by.

Honda has been creative, and seems to have its finger on the pulse of what buyers will want. My guess is that they will come up with good ideas.

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My first thought is to wonder what is this chicken and cow manure currently used for. My guess is that it's fertilizer to produce food...ie, human fuel. And now it should become fuel for automobiles and such? I can't be sure this is a wise move but admit to not knowing the whole argument. We must remember that, for something to get clean something else gets dirty.

I'm stuck with my 2000 honda CR-V for a few more years so I have yet to look into what is available hybrid wise. Where I live we have to have a 4 wheel dr and the extra cargo room comes in handy. I can imagine how tiny the ultra fuel efficient models can be (thinking back to my 2+2 Fiat Spyder). Still, my CR-V gets 28 MPG when running at tip top so I can't complain to much.

As for CAFE standards? Those standards are so abused. One model's efficiency is designed to make up for the short comings of another! That makes the real benefits of CAFE hard to see if everyone buys the gas hogs. I would like to see drivers pay a milage tax based on fuel efficiency of your vehicle. You chose to drive a gas hog and you pay for it at the pump or when you pay your personal property taxes. That would shut down those who complain that their freedom of choice of vehicle is being infringed upon while making the rest of us pay for their personal choices which regulate gas prices vis a vis supply and demand.