I don't understand people who takes sides so strongly. I've got a Civic Hybrid for comfort and mileage, a Vette for speed and reasonable economy and a truck for towing and hauling much like iboomdude. I be happy to have a TDI or an Accord euro diesel if I had a purpose for them. When someone finally make a diesel hybrid that will be the bomb. If you like your TDI or whatever that is fine with me but I'm by no means a sissy for driving a hybrid. As iboomdude says vehicles serve a purpose and if we are gonna race, I'll be driving the Vette. If we are going for mileage I'll be driving the HCH. The TDI will loose to both.

I've always been a guy who buys whatever suits my needs best at the time reguardless of politics. My computers have both Intel and AMD cpus and both nVidia and ATI video cards depending on the needs of the system. Got a Ford a Chevy and a Honda for cars. Why take sides? You shoot yourself in the foot if you limit your options.