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Hybrids are slow. BMWs are fast. Hybrids are apathetic off the band and aloof in the corners. BMWs in fact wish to accelerate, and will force your appropriate bottom down harder at stoplights even if you try to affluence it down acclaim (trust us, we’ve done the test). They’re designing hybrids now that in fact advance aback if you try to brew the pedal down.

These two things are incompatible.

They’re advancing calm anyway, on the attic of the Frankfurt Auto Appearance this week.

“Here’s one takeaway for the Frankfurt show,” the Los Angeles Times writes. “Elephants in tutus. In added words, how will European marks clasp their accommodating saloons and exceptional sports cars into the ever-tighter spandex of ammunition efficiency? The solutions will be alarming and sometimes absurd.” As affectation A, they action the BMW ActiveHybrid X6 concept, “powered by 4.4-liter V8 (400 hp and 450 pound-feet of torque), a seven-speed transmission, two absorption motors (91 hp and 86 hp) for a absolute of 480 hp and 575 pound-feet of torque.”

The U.K.’s AutoCar notes, “That’s abundant to accredit the car to ability 62mph in 5.6sec, just 0.2sec slower than the xDrive50i. BMW aswell claims accumulated ammunition burning of 28.5mpg.”

It’s not the alone BMW amalgam on affectation in Frankfurt. A super-luxury 7-Series amalgam auto is aswell on affectation – but it’s not traveling to drive like a Prius, either. It combines a twin-turbo V8 with an electric motor, according to Autoblog, blame “the huge-ish amalgam to 60 in 4.9 abnormal canoeing through the eight-speed automatic. The battery, a accurate foot, and amalgam stalwarts like anchor activity about-face can get you 25 mpg.”

Pretty impressive, for elephants in tutus. Both BMW hybrids are accepted to ability showrooms in the U.S. in time for the 2011 archetypal year.

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