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Old 07-14-2006, 10:44 PM
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Default Re: With $3.25 gas, now is the time.Big boost for GM to beat Toyota.

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Originally Posted by martinjlm
Bottom line is, Toyota realized that scaling up the IMA to a truck duty cycle would run into some serious physical limitations (the motors get to be too big to package in the transmission tunnel under the vehicle)
Martin
Ummm Toyota is HSD not IMA. The way I remember it is that HSD (Toyota) does scale up well but IMA (Honda) does not. The FEH and HH already use HSD so I don't think scaling HSD is a problem. Of course my memory is subject to error so if someone could confirm........
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