Hybrids account for 2.3% of January auto sales
Click above for high-res image gallery of the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
Although the global and U.S. automotive markets are suffering a huge setback in sales, it's not impossible for automakers to find a few positive trends to hang their hats on, and one of them centers around hybrids. On the surface, it seems that now may not the best time to be charging extra for fuel saving options, especially since gas prices have fallen mightily from their precipitous highs last summer. Regardless, hybrid vehicles managed to carve out a bit more market share last month, with the official figure standing at 2.3 percent.
The fact is that automakers sold fewer hybrids last month than they did a year earlier, but that rate of decline is actually better than what's being seen in other segments. It may be a shallow victory, but it's a possible ray of good news in an overall negative climate. There's reason to believe things will continue to improve on the hybrid sales front with the upcoming introductions of volume sellers like the new 2009 Honda Insight, 2010 Toyota Prius and 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid.
Gallery: First Drive: 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
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gorr 5:48PM (2/19/2009)
It's the majority of chatters and bloggers in this site that have provoked this crisis. As of yet , all the world is analysing how a car move forward in this precise site. All gm staffs, usa goverment, all nations is re-thinking how to move a car forward and are waiting anxiously what precise car i will buy. This is the real name of the game. Yes, a single guy in the streets is deciding the basis of industrial life. Faint heart don't remember when they were dead long long time ago, before the bible, that i was prying for a combustion chamber doing a rotation connected to a car . Since then everytime we approach this very precise event, a car powered by hho from water, that constitute the very basis of industrialisation, then always a zombie show up, feeling guilty of having praise death for a lot of time and with his utterly disbelief make car engineers the new saviors and no car engineers are sufficiently autonomous minded to still put that car on sale in canada.
So to be concise the situation is this: The consumers all over the world have cease their car expenditure and are waiting for a real green car, so the world is stopped and is dying slowly and painfully with the biggest economic, social, religious, scientific, monetary, credit, housing, weather stroms, crisis their is.
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snp 1:00AM (2/20/2009)
dude....
you're crazy...
srk 4:49PM (4/02/2009)
and your English is terrible.
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