WOOOO!! Hybrid Yukon, Tahoe Coming Late in 2007!! USA! USA! USA!

[hatrack]

Gosh, only ten full years after the first Japanese production hybrids rolled off the line. :eyes: And, of course, no word on estimated efficiency and/or efficiency improvement . . .

BALTIMORE - General Motors Corp. will build two sport utility vehicles - the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon - using enhanced hybrid technology, the company said on Wednesday. The trucks will be manufactured in Arlington, Texas, beginning in late 2007 while the transmissions, using a hybrid system to boost fuel performance, especially at highway speeds, will be designed and assembled at a transmission plant in Baltimore, GM said. The company plans to invest up to $118 million to upgrade the Allison plant in Maryland.

GM's announcement for expanded fuel efficiency came a day after President George W. Bush said in his State of the Union address that America was "addicted to oil" and should do more to develop alternative energy sources, like ethanol-blended gasoline and hydrogen fuel cells for cars.

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Rick Wagoner, GM's chairman and chief executive, told reporters at the company's Allison transmission plant in Baltimore that the auto giant is in step with Bush's message.

"I think there is something in this idea of trying to pull a range of levers rather than looking for a single silver bullet," Wagoner said. "I think the president generally put forth an optimistic view of the industry, the issues we're addressing. We have to win with great products and that's what we're trying to do," Wagoner said.

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34831/story.htm

[zbdent]

1. Well, you have to say,

something is better than nothing (thank you, "beloved" Saint Ronnie, patron saint of trickle-down economics . . .)

[ET Awful]

2. So if you take a pile of caca and turn it into a hybrid pile of caca

In the end, don't you still just have a pile of caca?

I wouldn't trust a GM vehicle any further than I could throw it.

[hatrack]

3. Yeah, but it's a big, imposing pile of caca - with leather & Bluetooth!!

:eyes:

[ET Awful]

4. LMAO . . . caca with an antenna, I get it now

:rofl:

Maybe some chrome to hilight the caca.

[endarkenment]

5. You have to admire Ford and GM (and Toyota for that matter)

who have figured out that they can continue to sell huge SUVs to the now guilty-again SUV buyers by slapping a hybrid engine in it and adding 5-10K to the already inflated price.

Revenge will come at the pump.