A while back, I posted on the growing concern I had with the long-term viability of hybrid cars, based on all the fancy doo-dads under the hood, contrasted with the budgets of the usual people who buy eight to ten year old cars.  And it seems that Toyota employee Jon F. Thomson, in answering a [...]

I’ve been on the fence about hybrid cars for a while.  Not that I don’t think they’re a great leap forward from SUVs, rather, I’m worried about how the auto makers are selling them.  The story of car ownership is often marked by a series of buck-passings, and make-it-throughs as a car goes from owner [...]