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Old 09-21-2006, 02:34 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by stirl_ae86
for real, the exhaust sounds BADASS. the guy is never even gunning it and you hear this awesome rumble. I say V8 and not the V6+hybrid they mentionned....although i've been hearing rumors about a high performance hybrid from toyota for a while now, with an electric motor at each wheel.
"i've been hearing rumors ... from toyota"

Do you mean to say that Toyota is the one propagating these rumors?

Anyway, Toyota and pretty much all automobile manufacturers have done everything they could do to minimize their cars' unsprung weight to maximize handling ability. An electric motor at each wheel would increase the unsprung weight drammatically, killing a car's handling ability, so I sincerely doubt that Toyota would be considering such a design.
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