The second largest Japanese automobile company Honda intends to start serial production of cheap hybrid car, the price of which approximately half will assign the popular Toyota hybrid. Efforts Honda engineers have created a more affordable technology to design hybrid propulsion units, reported Auto-consulting. The basis for the development of new design elements will concept car Small Hybrid Sports presented in March 2007 in Geneva. Serial car, which borrows some elements of the design concept Small Hybrid Sports, will appear in the year 2009, and will cost about $ 14,000. Honda Sources in the company said that the new family will look like a hatchback and, like the Toyota Prius, will be completely autonomous model. "Hybrid technology most appropriate for compact city cars," said the President of Honda Europe Shidzhira Tokaji (Shigera Tokagi). "Global production of such vehicles equipped with hybrid engines, make them more available and cheaper than existing models today." Remember that the total length of Small Hybrid Honda Sports Concept, presented in Geneva, was 4000 mm, width 1760 mm, height 1270 mm wheelbase of the car-2350 mm. The amount of rubber-165/60 R20. Small Hybrid Honda Sports Concept was equipped with a 4-cylinder engine, with the pair working in a high-performance electric motor developed on the basis of an independent technology company Honda IMA (Integrated Motor Assist). Hybrid installation agregirovalas with CVT box. A new items very good prospects, especially when we consider that Americans have popular Prius is an average of about $ 25,000.
