poppagun

Are those thing like really fast from a dead stop cause my teacher has one and says it has 250tq at 300rpms and he would smoke me in the 1/8th

anthonyS88

what kind of hybrid, i think the prius does 0-60 in like 10 secs

Greased

WHAT? 250 tq at 300 rpms??? how does that work? what is its redline?

thedubsack85

electric motor has WAY more torque than a gas motor.. the gas motor shuts off completey at a stop and untill 5 mph... and if you have an SS/SC you will take him.

stavros

from a dig, no the prius will not take the ss/sc in a quarter. but from a 60 to 100 run the prius will take you. for this main reason.

the eletric motor will rev higher and higher and will not shift, as for a gas motor you have to shift, loosing rpm's

i have seen this happen to a couple people. and im a toyota mechanic... haha so i see and know these cars very well

syP

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poppagun

it is a camery

2006RedCobaltSS

iTrader: (3)

Mr. Kirchoffer? and his hybrid i will not beat u

RaineMan

an old Camry Hybrid?

Straight from Edmunds.com ->> "With a 0-60 time of 8.6 seconds, you won't win any drag races in the Camry Hybrid, but no one will make fun of you as you try to merge onto the freeway ..."

Put some money on it... go smoke his ass.

Co|3aLt $$

lol. electrics have all their torque available to moment you hit the gas do the not? (or is it computer limited?)

RaineMan

it's not computer limited... hybrids to have a shitload of torque off the line... but that electric motor can only run *****-out for a few seconds... it's just meant to get the car up to 15MPH or so... after that the typically anemic gas engine kicks in.

I don't see any Hybrids smoking the tires when they punch it off the line.

Co|3aLt $$

lol my cousin has a prius, they're def. not a car you wanna talk **** in, but it does pick up and go pretty decent ( for traffic driving..not for racing) they're also eerily quiet, which I don't like.

D4u2s0t

from a 60-100??? the prius will win? you have to be joking. i don't care about the principals behind it, but i bet a ss/sc can go 0-100 in the time a prius can go 60-100.

yea, they have torque off the line, and that's about it. i remember a while back reading a post on the prius boards about how they had superior cars to everything on the market because they could SMOKE the **** out of an enzo in a race from 0-5mph. yes, that's right, 0-5mph. they would actually say "Well, i can smoke an enzo till 5mph"

srowler9

electric motors have instantaneous torque. They are completely different from gas motors. he may be right with the torque that low rpm, but you will beat him in a race

D4u2s0t

takes about 7 seconds to get from 60-80 in a prius. and still has another 20 miles an hour to go.

an0malous

Hybrids are the biggest smoke and mirrors show ever.

people think they are so special....so green.....helping the environment....

what a joke.

RaineMan

+1...

I remember an article in Popular Science a few years back when Hybrids were starting to get big. They tested a Civic LX vs a Civic Hybrid... and determined that to save enough gas to offset the extra $5000 that the car cost up front you would have to drive 100,000 miles.

Give it 5 years... when gas is $7/gal... it'll be worth it then.

an0malous

not so much the money you can save....
im reffering to the fact that this "supposedly" green friendly car,
actually leaves a larger carbon imprint on the planet, than an equivalent gasoline vehicle.

Co|3aLt $$

Ding Ding! someone finally gets past the hype...

RaineMan

I suppose you are also considering the battery pack that will have to be disposed of when the car dies too.

The thing that really scares me is the "plug in" cars that are coming... I pay enough for power as it is... can you imagine the demands on our energy grid when 10,000,000 people come home from work at 6:00 every day and plug in their car?

And noone has given any thought to the fact that 80% of our power is produced by coal or natural gas burning power plants...

So much for cutting back on greenhouse emissions.

an0malous

read this. tell me if it makes you chuckle

tell me whats wrong with this statement.

D4u2s0t

all of it!

FryLoch

iTrader: (5)

Finnally someone else with some damn sense!!!!

Hybrids are one of the biggests cons in automotive history

an0malous

yup.


did you know that IKEA now has a "hybrid parking only" stall up at the front now?

people are so gullible.

joeworkstoohard

the camry hybrid is pretty quick... i dunno if it'd take down an SC, but it would give a lot of cars a shock