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I've been a hot rodder for years, I've owned a '67 Firebird, '40 ford, and my wife just bought a 2010 Camaro. But I still find myself wondering where our

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Old 07-24-2009, 01:46 AM   #31 (permalink)
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I've been a hot rodder for years, I've owned a '67 Firebird, '40 ford, and my wife just bought a 2010 Camaro. But I still find myself wondering where our future lies .... I'm in my mid 40's now, and I find that I want there to be some sort of future for my children, does that mean my son is going to be hotrodding hybids ? Does that mean I need to hotrod a 370Z hybrid ? For some strange reason that doesn't bother me anymore ... I say bring it on !!!! Quite frankly I have hotrodded everything with a carburator that I can, I'm bored. Injectors ? Getting boring .... Let's try somthing new !!!!
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Old 09-30-2010, 04:30 AM   #32 (permalink)
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No thanks. Thats why I settled for the 2010 when I heard about this. If I wanted to go green I'd go all electric, ride a bike, or take the freakin bus. Call me old fashion but there is something about putting a battery in a car....especially in a sports car for that matter. If performance hybrids turn out to be the next big thing of this century, fine...I'll still be proud to own a "real" sports car that feeds on fuel and not some damn battery powered "toy" car.
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No thanks. Thats why I settled for the 2010 when I heard about this. If I wanted to go green I'd go all electric, ride a bike, or take the freakin bus. Call me old fashion but there is something about putting a battery in a car....especially in a sports car for that matter. If performance hybrids turn out to be the next big thing of this century, fine...I'll still be proud to own a "real" sports car that feeds on fuel and not some damn battery powered "toy" car.
and then you see your *** getting handed to you by these "toy" cars
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Old 09-30-2010, 11:44 AM   #34 (permalink)
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and then you see your *** getting handed to you by these "toy" cars
400 hp for the hybrid z. TT on the '09 '10 z. There you go.
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JeeZe. And someone thought I was bringing back old threads from the dead.
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Old 09-30-2010, 03:31 PM   #36 (permalink)
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400 hp for the hybrid z. TT on the '09 '10 z. There you go.
lol you need to start turbo charging your car to handle a "toy" car.

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and then you see your *** getting handed to you by these "toy" cars
pfff..i'll believe it WHEN i see it. On paper its a huge jump in performance, but it still needs to prove itself...also reliability is still in question. If I do get my *** handed to me...that just means its a faster car...but it doesnt mean its a better car, I'm predicting its going to have its own set of problems and I'm not going to put my hard earned money down to find out....I'll settle for the 2010 thats tried and true thank you.

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Old 10-01-2010, 06:52 PM   #38 (permalink)
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No one has brought up the estimated cost, I think it could go as high as 10k but you might find some Obama right off tax being a hybred
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I like the initiative from automakers to provide another alternative, as hybrid, even if its a sports car.
It is a "new" generation on the automotive industry and we should look forward to it.
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Hey man, Naytech is just a young man with 10 measly posts trying to make a name for himself in this world. He's probably read every post since Day 1 of the forum. LOL.
hehehe....i don't get it. I'll take that as a compliment, if you call 31 young...you look about the same age too young man. No I haven't read this forum since day one...because I didnt feel like I deserved to be on this site unless I was a proud Z owner...and with my hard earned money...I felt I owned it to myself for all the hard work I've done in my life to spoil myself for once. So hear I FINALLY am, with my measly now 11 posts and noob opinions. GOD Bless America.

Now back to the subject...I can argue for both sides of the spectrum...I just didnt see enough debating against hybrids...so I figured I'd make my contribution to that side of the argument hehe. Of course the hybrid is exciting...the Z's track record in improving their models have been good, so I'm sure this wouldn't be any different. I'm sure it will be a great car, its just a matter of tastes is all.

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I was just commenting on the fact that when someone is new to the site they usually read through pages and pages and end up on some really old posts. Looks like you did the same.
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I was just commenting on the fact that when someone is new to the site they usually read through pages and pages and end up on some really old posts. Looks like you did the same.
Uh... no i didn't. It's cause I just recently bought a 2010 Z this month (hence the recent join date) and did some research if I needed to wait until 2011, thats when I found out about the hybrid and found this post. Thanks for assuming though. I am too busy with career and family to do what you implied "new people do" of filtering through old posts.
No offense, but so f'n what if this thread is old..hybrid Zs are going to be more of a topic the closer we get to its release date. So expect this discussion to get more feedback. I get that old news can be irritating to regulars here, but if a thread needed to be revived, isn't this topic appropriate since hybrids are just around the corner? How about just be courteous, stop assuming, allow new members to actively participate in conversation and stop being so territorial, this isnt high school.

Okay, so I just did a bit of research and found, for the automatic that its going to have "the arrangement employing two clutches to take the place of the torque converter for a seven-speed auto transmission allowing electic power to run only at the lower speeds". Okay, im not too familiar with hybrids, but this makes sense...I guess its not so bad afterall. What it boils down to is if the price of the lithium battery is worth the small increase in performance. Cause really, I love to go fast sometimes, but...400hp just seems overkill if you ask me.
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