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We’ve all heard many attacks against hybrid cars: they’re too expensive, they’re ugly, and people who drive them emanate high levels of smugness. But what people sometimes forget is that these innocent vehicles save gas, save the environment from additional pollution, and can make for some darn good race cars. Wait, what? In today’s good news, we’re glad to hear that hybrid cars are taking a whole new, and unexpected, dimension. [Gizmag]
THE MODEL
The news comes from Italy, where N.Technology and Tatuus has signed a deal to produce a new kind of single-seater Formula racing car: a hybrid. Tatuus, which builds Formula Renault cars, will take care of building N.Technology’s concept right away, producing low, aerodinamic racing cars that waste less gas and respect the environment a little more.
CHARACTERISTICS
The new single-seater car will have a 2-litre, 4-cylinder, 250-bhp engine, gearbox and clutch controls on the steering wheel – not bad. What makes it wonderful is that it has been conceived as having all these features fitted with a hybrid engine system, instead of the regular, very pollutant type.
THE SERIES
Formula N.T07 cars, as they will be formally known, will compete in a new international series within the European rounds of the FIA World Touring Car Championship. We won’t have to wait too long: the first season of the formula will be the 2007 season.
Cars, speed, and environmental protection: not much more to life than that.
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