Ford GT....Hybrid????

**KnightmareWS6** · 02-04-2011, 09:13 AM

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/au...as_hybrid.html

Not quite sure how this is gonna work out, but it should be interesting.

**Smkn_TA** · 02-04-2011, 09:16 AM

looks fugly as hell

**KnightmareWS6** · 02-04-2011, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by Smkn_TA

looks fugly as hell

Agreed.

**Spaz** · 02-04-2011, 09:18 AM

wow... they took a beautiful looking car and fucked it up... kinda like what gm did with the camaro...

**KnightmareWS6** · 02-04-2011, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by Spaz

wow... they took a beautiful looking car and fucked it up... kinda like what gm did with the camaro...

Lol. Well, maybe GM can redeem themselves with the Z28........ maybe.

Not sure how Ford is gonna play this one out though. If I was looking for a supercar (lol, in my dreams......), I really wouldn't care whether it's a hybrid or not. And people who are looking for a hybrid are probably not going to consider a supercar. Trying to appeal to two completely opposite demographics is not going to work.

**ibanez7** · 02-04-2011, 10:03 AM

wow, looks like another modern retro throwback.. 60s design with todays CTS chizeled look...

piss poor body lines

BTW the new z28 will look like bumblebee from TF2

**justinmc978** · 02-04-2011, 02:20 PM

why are hybrid cars being styled to look like small mouth bass?

**SiggyZ** · 02-05-2011, 05:37 AM

2006 Ford GT please. Jeremy Clarkson bought one, so that's gotta mean something.

**KnightmareWS6** · 02-06-2011, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by SiggyZ

2006 Ford GT please. Jeremy Clarkson bought one, so that's gotta mean something.

Add the Hennessey GT1000 package and you have one of my top 5 favorite cars of all time.

**shady milkman** · 02-07-2011, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by KnightmareWS6

Lol. Well, maybe GM can redeem themselves with the Z28........ maybe.

Not sure how Ford is gonna play this one out though. If I was looking for a supercar (lol, in my dreams......), I really wouldn't care whether it's a hybrid or not. And people who are looking for a hybrid are probably not going to consider a supercar. Trying to appeal to two completely opposite demographics is not going to work.

yeah 78 miles to a gallon and a 0-60 in 3.2 and top speed of 198 sucks

people get rich by making good financial decisions.if given a choice of similar performance and either 12mpg or 78.......99.9% will pick the 78

**SiggyZ** · 02-07-2011, 10:58 AM

I agree completely. People will buy that beast of a hybrid Porsche is making.

Originally Posted by shady milkman

yeah 78 miles to a gallon and a 0-60 in 3.2 and top speed of 198 sucks

people get rich by making good financial decisions.if given a choice of similar performance and either 12mpg or 78.......99.9% will pick the 78

**Schmalgar** · 02-07-2011, 11:04 AM

Actually, if you think about it, going hybrid is actually a good move for the supercar makers. Consider the kind of instant torque you can get out of the electric motors. It can certainly add to the performance, and then the 'green'(er) image they foster is a nice bonus...

I just wish that Chevy had kept the Volt looking bad-ass like the initial concepts, instead of the eventual Prius-esque thing they turned it into.

**Smittro** · 02-07-2011, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by shady milkman

yeah 78 miles to a gallon and a 0-60 in 3.2 and top speed of 198 sucks

people get rich by making good financial decisions.if given a choice of similar performance and either 12mpg or 78.......99.9% will pick the 78

**justinmc978** · 02-07-2011, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by Schmalgar

I just wish that Chevy had kept the Volt looking bad-ass like the initial concepts, instead of the eventual Prius-esque thing they turned it into.

disagree here.. the concept was way too sylized and boxy, the roof life was nice, but everything on it looked like a collage of magazine cutouts and didn't fit together well.

ex: small face grill and headlights.

edit: definatley no arguement about the real thing looking 'priusy', GM could have definately done better..

**KnightmareWS6** · 02-07-2011, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by shady milkman

yeah 78 miles to a gallon and a 0-60 in 3.2 and top speed of 198 sucks

people get rich by making good financial decisions.if given a choice of similar performance and either 12mpg or 78.......99.9% will pick the 78

Let me put it like this: would you rather buy a $110,000 Tesla Roadster or an $84,000 Nissan GTR? (The GTR is faster).

**Schmalgar** · 02-07-2011, 12:50 PM

That's apples and oranges. The better question is, would you pay $84,000 for the GTR or say $94,000 for a hybrid GTR? And yeah, in those prices, I would pay another 10 grand or whatever for a hybrid version. Just because you don't buy a supercar for the stellar mileage doesn't mean you can't aim for more if it's available...

**shady milkman** · 02-07-2011, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by KnightmareWS6

Let me put it like this: would you rather buy a $110,000 Tesla Roadster or an $84,000 Nissan GTR? (The GTR is faster).

well the tesla is a battery powered car.......so it isnt a hybrid as it doesn't have a gasoline engine..

**KnightmareWS6** · 02-07-2011, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by shady milkman

well the tesla is a battery powered car.......so it isnt a hybrid as it doesn't have a gasoline engine..

Well seeing as ther aren't any actual product hybrid supercars yet, that's the closest comparison I can do. I guess I'm still stuck on the fact that whenever I hear the word 'hybrid', a picture of a Prius instantly pops into my head.

**Schmalgar** · 02-07-2011, 10:05 PM

Yeah the Prius has made the word 'hybrid' synonymous with 'low power high mileage eco-friendly green hippy family car'... but that's not what the word has to mean...

**Smittro** · 02-08-2011, 04:10 AM

The fact is Hybrid cars are currently a waste of time and money..

It's been proven the over all cost to maintain a hybrid car is more expensive than it's gasoline counter part..

It's also been proven absurd to think you'll ever see consisant max mpg's of 40-50mi. per gal..

It IS however more likely that you'll see mpg's consistant with any comparable car of the same class..

Meaning,, it's currently all a gimick..

Makes the tree hugging carbon fairy's happy and nothing more..

Just as putting a tin can of mesh into the exhaust stream somehow makes things better for the air...

Maybe if the world were flat.............