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March 7, 2008
Saab 9-X BioHybrid Wins Best Concept Car at Geneva
By Jen Dunnaway
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Saab seems to make a habit of cooking up some real wowie-zowie concept cars, but it’s quite the feat to win Best Concept Car at the Geneva Motor Show for a display vehicle that reportedly showed up without its motor. I guess that’s why they call it a concept. The theoretical powerplant the award-winning 9-X BioHybrid would have been running was a solar-battery hybrid system mated to a 200hp, 1.4L ethanol-powered engine. But the one WorldCarFans spotted had no motor, and had to be pushed into its booth, making it a truly zero-emissions vehicle. Congrats, Saab!
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Mar 9, 2008 at 2:34 pm
A concept car or show car is a car prototype made to showcase a concept, new styling, technology and more. They are often shown at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not have a chance of being produced.
right? dude this is an awesome post. i wanted to know how do you do the research on cars like this.
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GTwildfire
Mar 9, 2008 at 12:47 am
Well, I guess the conclusion of a recent study that Biofuels create more CO2 than gas isn’t enough to sway the momentum of this craze.
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If more supporting evidence comes out (and this isn’t just another oil industry ploy to thwart alternative fuels) I wonder just how much it will take before people would abandon this.
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Or is it another form of “Crack”… having addicted folks to another flawed idea.
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Again, it could be legit and that study could be entirely bogus. The Oil Industry is much akin to Hitler’s propaganda machine. When it serves or protects their interests, they’ll fabricate and broadcast whatever’s needed to cast doubts.
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They did it with the Electric car. Unfortunately the Cali politicians and GM’s brass lack backbones and vision, and bailed at the first sign of doubt (even though it was the Oil Industry casting it).
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Nonetheless, determination gotta be made to get to the bottom of the Biofuels controversy. We can’t afford to have technology popularized that pollutes TWICE as much as what we have now, if that’s the case.