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Ford Ramping Up Hybrid Models

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Tideland Prius, Dec 4, 2005.

  1. Tideland Prius

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    While Honda and Toyota have been vocal about plans to spread hybrid technology throughout their product lines, this has not been the case with domestic automakers. Just a few hybrid models are presently offered by domestics with announcements of a small number of new models in the works.

    Now this dynamic is changing. Ford has announced that it will bring gasoline-electric hybrid propulsion to fully half of its vehicle models in the next five years, with an annual hybrid production volume of some 250,000 vehicles. The strategy is a simple one, as Green Car Journal has long maintained. Hybrid powerplants will become yet another option, the same as opting up from a standard four-cylinder powerplant to a six-cylinder, or a six-cylinder to a V-8. But rather than just more power, a hybrid powerplant will bring greater fuel economy along with better performance. It’s a winning combination that should prove popular in an environment of high and uncertain fuel prices in the coming years.

    Source: Green Car Journal Online
     
    #1 Tideland Prius, Dec 4, 2005
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    I think the Fusion is a neat car and when I was shopping the Prius I asked one of the local Ford dealers when the Fusion hybrid would be out. They told me mid '07. I just got a call fri asking if I was still interested because the release date for Fusion hybrids had been moved up to June '06.
     
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    As nice as the Fusion hybrid might be, they are gonna have to demonstrate great reliability to me for a few years before I buy a ford.
     
    #3 GreenMachine, Dec 4, 2005
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    I hope they bring out a hybrid version of the Milan as well.

    Either way, both the Fusion and Milan have interiors that are light years ahead of the Prius, so I won't be going wrong there. And since that have that fantastic Volvo pedigree, you know it's going to be a good handling car. :)
     
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  5. Tideland Prius

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    so you're saying the Escape's interior is Mazda's problem?
     
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