LOL @ the copy and paste from CR... do you come up with anything original??? ever???

No cut and paste my thoughts and my words.

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Loving my BMW

You didn't even read the thread you posted did you. Let me help you.

"the X5 diesel has been made in Sparatanburg and xported for the past several years and has a great track record....additionally, the environmental cost of manufacturing and disposing of the nickel batteries used by hybrids far exceeds the net benefit."

So from this post (which you didn't read) it is evident that we already understand the benefits and limits of each technology.

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Harmony happens whenever different parts get to form a whole by means of congruity, concord, symetry, consistency, conformity, correspondence, agreement, accord, unity, consonance…….

[QUOTE=Quicksilver]You didn't even read the thread you posted did you. Let me help you.

" the environmental cost of manufacturing and disposing of the nickel batteries used by hybrids far exceeds the net benefit."

Please support this statement

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Loving my BMW

Read the thread you posted. Then think " Dispose of those batteries and the hydrocloric acid". Not rocket science IMHO



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"What you hear in a great jazz band is the sound of democracy. “The jazz band works best when participation is shaped by intelligent communication.”
Harmony happens whenever different parts get to form a whole by means of congruity, concord, symetry, consistency, conformity, correspondence, agreement, accord, unity, consonance…….

It would be boring is what it would be. The big hybrids are not so much about increasing MPG as they are about getting performance without LOWERING mileage.

Maintaining the performance of a Cayenne S with the consumption of a base Cayenne has to be a good thing. I think that is what they are trying to achive. If they were succesful? I have no clue.

I certainly hope BMW is not going to try to make a green-mobile - I want them to keep making BMW's

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Exactly, that is why they need to stop the nonsense of making current models 'hybrid' and start building models that were designed that way from the ground up.

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Like the Prius ?

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Loving my BMW

Well, yes that was a ground up design.

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"promote the general welfare, not provide the general welfare"

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.