Hybrid cars aren’t just for the Prius anymore! The wildly propular Prius frenzy has finally started to catch the attention of auto makers around the world who are rapidly developing the cars with best gas mileage. Nothing like $4 dollar a gallon gas to wake the flippin auto industry up huh? Could it be that all those mid east oil mongers have finally bit the hand that feeds them once to many times? God, I hope so!
Anyway, word has surfaced just today that the Lotus, that awesomely stylish British sports car is now in the process of putting that all familiar roar of distinction under a new brand of eco-friendly that will actually make it a safer bet for pedestrians than the near silent runners coming off more traditional assembly lines.
Hahaha…sure sounds like a winning explanation to me! Lotus making a quiet car? COME ON! It wouldn’t be a Lotus if it didn’t sound like one right even if it were one of the cars with best gas mileage?
At any rate, Lotus said its “safe and sound hybrid technology” simulates the traditional grunt of a combustion engine, making it “instantly recognisable that the vehicle is in motion”. Sweet! I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Here’s the clincher though. The sound you hear coming from that new hybrid car engine? Artificial…of course! Seems that the engine noise you hear when starting that car is produced by a waterproof loudspeaker placed somewhere around the radiator….What? Lord say it isn’t so!!!
Well, I guess it is better for those of us who walk the streets for our health and fido’s exercise routine…I mean after all…a Lotus hybrid…Not being sure of who is behind the wheel I guess being able to hear it coming is not a bad idea after all!
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