Going Green?

With the gas price continues to climb toward the 5 dollar a gallon mark that is supposed to be by the end of this year, the once unthinkable mass hybrid cars is not so far fetched in the U.S. anymore. There was a time that when you talked about hybrid vehicles the only car that popped in one's head would be the Toyota Prius, and the only people that drove those cars were the extremists that wanted to make a statement. In another words they were as rare as a Ferrari on a regular U.S. road. But with the oil crisis upon us once again we are starting to see more and more manufacturers show casing their hybrid vehicles, and we are seeing them on the roads regularly now as well. It seems that every auto journalist is raving about the new hybrid or even true electric cars, about the insane gas milage they get. Drastic time calls for drastic measures, even some of the performance orientated car makers such as Porsche are making hyrids, and you know we are really in a shit now.

BMW has been known for making all around performance cars that are not so gas effient for the best part of last 50 years. But even they can not escape the current situation, however in true BMW fashion they will not just make another hybrid cars like everyone else is doing, they are making a BMW first and foremost.

Since 2009 BMW has been working on their next gen hybrid vehicles code named "Vision Efficient Dynamics". So what is it exactly other than the extremely long name? Well it will start with a very small 1.3 liter 3 cylinder turbo charged diesle engine, which is the engine of choice in Europe to save gas instead of regular gas engines or electric engines. It is then mated with 2 electric motors on each drive axl, and all these 3 engines will then be routed to all 4 wheels producing approximately 360 horse power thus making the vehicle going from 0-60 in less than 3.9 seconds. In another word instead making another boring hybrid BMW basically made a super car, but how good is the miage? BMW recently test it out in Dubai and got around 63 mpg average, and that is damn impressive for this what I think is ridiculous car and totally not one would have anticipated when they heard a hybrid. So yeah if you have 200 grand laying around and wanted to make a green statement, check this car out which is due in 2013.