December 29, 2004
| Accord
Hybrid one of LA's Ten Great Cars of Year
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Los Angeles is possibly the
world's most materialistic city, especially when it comes to
automobiles. That's why when I saw the article,
The Class of 2004 Ten of the great cars of the year and the
types of L.A. owners they might attract, by Dan Neil, I
certainly didn't expect to see a hybrid
vehicle.
Yet, of the 10, one was the Honda
Accord Hybrid and another was a Mini-Cooper, most of the
rest were extreme gas-guzzlers.
Still, I was happy that a story about cars and Los Angeles,
written by a Los Angeles Auto writer, would include a hybrid,
but the article went further than that. Mr. Neil opens his
article mentioning America's relationship to the internal
combustion engine, and that this year provided evidence that
something better than the internal combustion engine was clearly
possible.
More important, he noted $3.00 gas in California and said,
"American foreign policy is bloodily fixated on a region of
the world whose single strategic value is oil."
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