I agree. My sister is on her second Prius and she loves them. Electric for putzing around, gas power for when needed. Best of both worlds.
Studebaker, Hudson, and on and on are not ever comingback.
With the money spent buying the new camaro(at the time) and cost of the conversion(transam body kit).... you'd probably a lot spend less resto modding an original transam that the owner will no doubtly get more respect for from the general public.Ever see what they did with the Camaro by putting Trans Am stuff on it? Why couldn't GM sell THAT?!?
I would think these cars are more the "look at all they money I can spend" crowd. Some are cool what if cars but at the end of the day it'll still be a Camaro.
Hybrids aside, what about hydrogen technology? Uses water, the by product is oxygen. At the rate the realtors and home builders are knocking over trees to clear land for new overly priced poor quality subdivisions, we are going to need all the extra oxygen generators we can create.what I don't get is why they aren't building more hybrids. they're proven power plants, adaptable to different platforms, so I don't think battery placement/storage is an issue. if they just made every platform a hybrid that would cut costs with everything being standardized for that platform. it would also get them ahead of the curve for meeting CAFE standards. my wife has a 2017 Hyundai Sonata Limited hybrid and I've been very happy with it's capabilities, power, and range. (she just likes the nice fancy sedan and leather seating
Problem is manuals don't sell to the masses because many can't drive them, thats the whole reason I am going to lose a bet with a buddy about the C8 eventually coming in a manual. When I made the bet I didn't know it was part of the frame, but also didn't know that they sold so few manuals making it not worth the time to invest into making it work. GM is a bunch of dolts, why I stick with their products is beyond me. The GTO they brought back is what it would have turned into instead of bringing out a retro look like everyone else was, they were hoping to just hit on the name recognition. They fail time after time with actual good cars they put no marketing into, look at that G8 ad from the video. Do you remember ever really seeing that? I think it was an awesome car and commercial if they had actually supported it I think it would have done a ton better. Then they did the same with the SS, wonder why that never sold.
Unfortunately that's what all the brands are doing follow GM's failed attempts, although I guess MOPAR was pretty early on with it too killing the Charger name in the 80s then again with the current one. While I did finally like the last model updates and did make them a ton better looking it was still a disgrace to the name.
Very easy answer, the decision makers with the money decided to back battery tech and will push that because it is much easier to make money from it. Hydrogen could be very effective in the green side of the solution, problem is that it is much harder for them to monetize it. I did see BMW and another manufacturer are going Hydrogen and will have something out like next year.
