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Originally Posted by Sulu
Hybrid drivetrains can be used in high-power vehicle situations. The Honda Accord Hybrid, and Lexus GS 450h and LS 600h are examples of using more-than-adequate engines and adding more power (without adding fuel consumption and CO2 emissions) by adding the electric drive of the hybrid system. We have been confined into thinking of hybrid vehicles as just fuel economy champions that use an inadequate or barely-adequate engine and adding electric drive to boost power to merely adequate levels.
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Yet, both of them flopped completely. The Accord Hybrid is already discontinued. They both were launched as "performance hybrids". Honda admitted they neither could capture the typical hybrid buyers (since the fuel economy was not very good) nor the typical performance oriented buyers. Yet, both made good amounts of power and acceleration numbers were decent.
It is a matter of not making dynamics of a performance car quiet, numb, disconnected and not engaging. That is what killed those cars that neither they catered to the enthusiasts looking for excitement and thrills in the car nor typical hybrid buyers.
