Be warned that alleged hybrids from American manufacturers such as the Mercury thing that David mentioned are really little more than systems for shutting down the engine when you're stopped and automatically restarting it again when you take your foot off the brake. True, they recapture some energy when you're slowing down and provide a bit of the power when you're accelerating, but they provide nowhere near the advantages of the Honda Civic Hybrid or Toyota Prius systems,which themselves prove to provide a lot less mileage improvement in real life than the silly EPA figures. (You _might_ get near the EPA figures is you always accelerate and deccelerate very gently, never drive over 60, and don't run the AC.) If you _really_ want to be green and don't mind that you'll never get your money back in fuel-cost savings.... -- Mixon
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