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Guys who drive ‘Green Cars’ get all the girls

According to a recent study nearly 9 in 10 women (88 percent) say they’d rather chat up someone who owns the latest fuel-efficient car versus the latest sports car. So let’s just say that Guy who drive ‘Green’ get all the girls.

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This just goes to prove ‘Green’ is a more valuable social commodity than the other green. If you get my drift.

Other interesting news included this:
Eighty percent of American car buyers would find someone with the latest fuel-efficient car more interesting to talk to at a party than someone with the latest sports car.

Source: Yahoo



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Tokyo Motor Show: Toyota goes unconventional with Hi-CT Plug-In Concept Trucklet

Toyota HI-CT Plug-In Concept

Toyota’s design team has broken themselves from nearly all automotive conventions and is stepping out of the box…  well, stepping out of the conventional box to create a new box entirely. The Toyota Hi-CT plug-in concept is a 4-seater (those back seats are in there somewhere) plug-in hybrid truck-type-thing. The Hi-TC is part of Toyota’s study of environmental concepts and new designs that might better fit the new hybrid technologies. While the Hi-CT is highly unconventional it is intentionally so. New technologies often do not fit so well in old packages.

Here is how Toyota describes the Hi-CT and what they see its purpose as and look for more photos after the leap:

          Hi-CT (”hi ride city truck”) - an edgy, urban vehicle (more…)



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Mythbusters: Gas Vs. Electric [Alternative Energy]

Popular Mechanics enlisted the help of Mythbuster Jaime Hyneman to answer that all-consuming transportation question: gas or electric? Using a collection of prototypes and production vehicles, the team set out to test compact cars, ATVs, motorcycles and go-karts head-to-head on-road and on the course to find out whether electrics could stand up to tried-and-true gas engines. The answer? Without spoiling a really good read, sometimes yes, sometimes no, but it's sure got us jonesing for an electric-conversion project in the Jalopnik garage. [PopMech]



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