My sentiments exactly, MGBGT. I'll be in that small minority with you.

A pig is still a pig, even it gets 10 percent better fuel economy.

The beauty of a Prius II is that it was designed with fuel efficiency in mind, from top to bottom, including the lowest drag coefficient of any car currently being sold. The car is a dazzling tour-de-force of engineering, with fuel economy and low emissions being the prime goals. The car is an inspirational display of corporate courage and determination.

Putting a hybrid system in an overweight, bloated, oversized SUV defies logic in the sense that you are at best doing only a half-hearted attempt. You may only be twice the mass, but at what drag coefficient? And the hybrid systems being proposed are in themselves half-measures.

GM is still letting the bean-counters run the show. Putting anemic hybrid systems in vehicles that should be outlawed or at least heavily taxed for their negative effects on the environment and severe safety problems, especially to other motorists, is an exercise in corporate cowardice.

GM, if you insist on maximizing your profits through the continued immoral sales of SUV's, at least show the world what you are capable of, and produce an all-out environmentally-friendly vehicle that will out-do the Prius!

Harry