Finally a diesel hybrid

Maybe there's hope for the American auto-industry - GM just unvielded a diesel-electric hybrid muscle car reputed to get 65mpg. This addresses too of my concerns - it has hope of being powered by bio-diesel, and secondly it will appeal to that much under reported sector of gas-guzzling drivers: muscle and sports car owners. I know that SUVs are an easy target, they are big, irritating, in your face and often in your side of the parking space.

However people often forget that if automakers aren't selling to the SUV driving crowd then they are typically selling to the boy-racer and grown-up boy-racers. Those cars are neither low consumers of gas or low emitters of pollution. Fortunately there's a good deal fewer of them on the streets than SUVs and they are still significantly better than SUVs in terms of absolute gas mileage. If you factor in how little these sports cars weigh compared to say a Ford Expedition its actually surprising they consume as much gas as they do - does that have to be so?

Apparently not - there are pure electric sports cars out there that can beat the pants of most American muscle cars and are capable of running on 100% clean renewable electricity. So why not a hybrid muscle car that is at least better than average?