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Does WIRED think GM and Ford will kill off Toyota with PHEVs?

If you were to say "Bob's coup de grace," would you mean the death stroke of mercy that Bob administers or the stroke that is administered to Bob to end his suffering? Either way, I think the term – changed slightly to match the topic at hand – is being misused by WIRED in this article on Ford and GM's plug-in hybrid concept cars. Called Coupe de Grace (get it?), the article describes how the Chevy Volt and Ford HySeries Edge concepts will, "leapfrog current hybrid designs and could put pressure on Toyota's popular Prius by ... Read more →

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