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orange blossom · Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 1162 Location: Australia

Toytoa gets A$35 million help to manufacture hybrid cars in Melbourne.

TECHNOPHOBES, fear not. Hybrids are just like normal cars.

firefly · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 56

Hello Orange Blossom,

I have given thoughts that this latest development was the trigger of the unprecedented rise in the price of petrol. If and when this hybrid car hit the market, and in a short time of one decade, the need for petrol for cars will be insignificant.

So petroluem people are hell bent to rip off the last dollar from us.

Incidentally, there is also the magnetic motor that will produce power endlessly at no cost! So the need for power to manufacture things is not in danger for the lack of petrol. The war in the middle east ostensibly over petrol is a fraud - it is all about empire building, nothing to do with the depletion of oil.

I had put off buying a new car, honest .

orange blossom · Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 1162 Location: Australia

Greetings firefly, hybrid cars are becoming more popular as people try to cut down on petrol usage and are more environment conscious these days.

According to Experian Automotive whose North American headquarters are in Costa Mesa, California, 47 per cent of hybrid buyers buy a vehicle of the same make, compared with 35 per cent of buyers overall.

In Australia, the government is encouraging motorists to buy fuel efficient "green" cars through funding and tax incentives and cut down on large family cars.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/cheap-rego-for-small-cars/2008/08/15/1218307227791.html

Consumers will enjoy lower car prices, especially imports.

The planned cut in tariffs on imported cars in 2010 are expected to go ahead, disappointing car-makers and unions, which wanted the tariff frozen. Australia's car-makers lost $450 million last year, partly due to declining sales of large cars.

orange blossom · Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 1162 Location: Australia

Firefly, I see more Toyota Primus on the roads these days. However, I'll probably wait till further improvements on technology for hybrid cars. Besides, my Camry is less than five years old, with low mileage and well maintained. It could easily last another 10 years. Many of my Aussie neighbours have junked their Ford and Holdens in favour of Japanese cars (imported from Japan, Thailand or assembled in Victoria).