{"id":4949,"date":"2021-01-10T00:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:44:20","slug":"nissan-working-on-a-luxury-performance-hybrid-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=4949","title":{"rendered":"Nissan working on a luxury performance hybrid for 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at eGMCarTech they are reporting that when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/nissan\/\">Nissan<\/a> does finally begin selling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid<\/a> based on their own internally developed technology, there will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/car-finder\/luxury-sedan\/\">luxury sedan<\/a> in the mix. Nissan has already announced <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2006\/09\/25\/nissan-to-bring-a-hybrid-to-market\/\">they will sell a natively designed hybrid <\/a>in 2010. Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has also made clear that he is not a fan of hybrids. Given the complexity and development effort required, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesel<\/a> engines can get comparable efficiency for less money. So it appears that instead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/toyota\/prius\/\">Prius<\/a> competitor, they will instead go after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/lexus\/\">Lexus<\/a> GS450h with a hybrid version of the next generation Infiniti <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/infiniti\/m45\/\">M45<\/a>. From an economic standpoint, this might make sense, since they can more readily bake in the extra cost in a luxury sport sedan. They can also achieve the performance of the V-8 powered M45 with the efficiency of the 6-cylinder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/infiniti\/m35\/\">M35<\/a>. Of course even if they do make a hybrid M, they could still follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/toyota\/\">Toyota<\/a> path and put hybrid drive-trains in everything. What I&#x27;d really like to see though is diesel-hybrid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2006\/11\/29\/la-auto-show-2008-nissan-altima-coupe-the-poor-mans-g35\/\">Altima coupe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2007\/01\/25\/report-nissan-planning-luxury-hybrid\/\">eGMCarTech <\/a>via MotorAuthority.com &#8211; thanks to Omar for the tip]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/01\/25\/nissan-working-on-a-luxury-performance-hybrid-for-2010\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-01-25T15:24:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at eGMCarTech they are reporting that when Nissan does finally begin selling a hybrid based on their own internally developed technology, there will be a luxury sedan in the mix. Nissan has already announced they will sell a natively designed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10434,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}