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COMPARISON
Green is good
YES, IT’S POSSIBLE. THESE FOUR CARS
PROVE ‘HYBRID FUN’ IS NOT AN OXYMORON.
pinnacle of performance hybrids and
automotive complexity. Are they pricey?
Absolutely. But so is any high-end sports
car or grand tourer.
Together these four cars share four
turbochargers, a supercharger, 19
cylinders, eight transmissions, and nine
electric motors. They average 479 horse-
power, 496 lb-ft of torque, a 4.0-second
0–60 run, and a combined fuel economy
of 46 mpg.
Although I appreciate numbers, they
tell just half of the story. Only driving
these cars back to back can tell us
which one offers the best experience
and whether any can hold a candle to
the longstanding truth of displace-
ment-based horsepower machines.
To find out, we took these four
sports cars on our favorite—and wild-
fire-scarred—driving roads that swerve
and dip in the hills above Malibu, then
to the test track. Do hybrids represent a
potential long-term powertrain solution,
or are they merely a brief waypoint on
our route to an all-electric future? We’re
about to find out.
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