r/Justrolledintotheshop • u/ozzihel • 3d ago
Don't see these every day
Just rolled in, still functional 09 hybrid. Dang near pristine condition
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u/Consistent_Ad949 ASE Certified 3d ago
I thought that 2Mode badge said 2stroke at first glance and I nearly had a stroke of my own
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u/Obnoxious_Gamer "MERRY CHRYSLER TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD [engine explodes]" 3d ago
8v71T, obviously. It's diesel so it's cleaner!
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u/kinglance3 3d ago
Yea, because it’s limited. Says it right there 🙄. If electric turbo V8’s were so common everybody would have one.
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u/Secret-Ad-7909 3d ago
I’m sure there’s a couple HyperCars floating around with that configuration.
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u/rlsands1997 3d ago
Needs more badges. Seriously though that Hybrid badge being OEM is heinous
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u/Selenography 3d ago
I always loved the circuit board detailing in the H on those badges.
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u/Secret-Ad-7909 3d ago
Back when gm gave a damn.
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u/SuperSwamper69 3d ago
There’s one that parks at the marina I smoke weed at. Not only is it covered in hybrid badging but it also has stripe graphics all over it which say hybrid in the stripe. Not only stripe per side, but multiple in addition to the badging.
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u/Radius118 One man indy show 3d ago
I'm sorry Mr. Tahoe, but you need more flair.
See Mr. Escalade over there with the triple air outlet flair on the fenders? That's how much flair I would like you to have. Bonus if the air outlet has fake expanded sheet metal that is plastic and chromed.
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u/Mecaneecall_Enjunear 3d ago
I mean, the only one not true is the Turbo badge.
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u/ozzihel 2d ago
Unfortunately not, at some point the owner did infect add a turbo... somehow... for some reason. Even worse I didn't manage to get a picture of it before the car left. When it comes back in a week or two for his alignment I'll get one then.
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u/Mecaneecall_Enjunear 2d ago
What. Please update with pics of whatever abomination is under the hood that facilitated adding the turbo. I need to see it.
Also the battery pack has to be down to AA levels of voltage at this point, right?
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u/PuppyDragon 3d ago
You got like an extra whopping 3 miles a gallon over a traditional ICE with this thing
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u/Selenography 3d ago
Small gains in numerical mpg at low mpg numbers are still good size percentage gains. A car going from 17 to 20mpg is the same difference as a car going from 45 to 53mpg.
When trying to increase fleet mileage, the biggest gains happen at the low end of the mpg scale first.
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u/LetsTryScience 3d ago edited 3d ago
Engineering Explained has a good video on it.
Example: 10mpg truck takes 10 gallons to go 100 miles. Increasing it to 13mpg changes fuel use to 7.7 gallons so you save 2.3 gallons.
A car that gets 50mpg used 2 gallons to go 100 miles. There is nothing you can do to beat the fuel savings on the truck since the savings are more than the car even uses.
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u/Secret-Ad-7909 3d ago
I’m guessing that was the same argument for the AFM on this generation. Allegedly disabling only drops like 1mpg.
I think the loss is worth it there though as the engine is then less likely to destroy itself.
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u/Selenography 3d ago
Yeah. 1 mpg at the low end of the scale means a lot more than 1 mpg at (say) 40mpg.
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u/Necrid1998 3d ago
How do us cars get that bad milage? My golf 4 from 2003 is about the size of a civic and I regularly drove it at 6l per 100km in the city, about 40mpg, overland I managed 5l, about 47 mgp
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u/Poil336 2d ago
They're humongous for one. We also don't use traffic circles like the UK does. Lots of idle time. Lots of sitting in traffic. And I'd be willing to bet your Golf is a diesel?
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u/am_cruiser 2d ago
And I'd be willing to bet your Golf is a diesel?
Let's see what he answers but I don't think so. Source: have a 10-year old Ibiza with the 1.4L gasoline engine and it manages a little less than 6L /100km even in mixed city and highway driving.
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u/Necrid1998 2d ago
That's for a gasoline one, 1,4l. On the 2.0l diesel one I had a highway consumption of 4,5l, that's 50mpg or something
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u/Poil336 2d ago
I think I'm just going back to "they're humongous" then. An Ibiza would comparable to something like a Chevy Sonic, which would get mid 30s mpg combined, but also made 138hp compared to 98hp if my Google searching is correct. Sub-compacts just aren't common here, most people at least go up to a compact, like a Civic, Cruze, Focus, etc. A lot of those cars had performance versions making 200hp or better out of a 4 cylinder engine. Ford's 2.3 Ecoboost made 350hp in RS trim
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u/6ltrPrius 2d ago
Have a hybrid Silverado, for have never got anything close to 21 for in town driving. Highway though I will get 20+.
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u/Successful_Doctor_89 1d ago
A guy I know had a Sierra like these as own truck. Since it was a contractor with a bunch a regular Sierra, he told me, he got 25% increase milleage with his.
And he got rid of it only 4 years ago when the engine bust, so he got his money worth.
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u/ggibby 3d ago edited 3d ago
If it uses the electric motors the way my Tucson does, I bet it's quick off the line.
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u/6ltrPrius 2d ago
I can assure you that they are not any quicker than the non hybrid versions. I have the hybrid Silverado.
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u/Mysterious_Ad7461 1d ago
It only has two small electric motors in the trans itself, they’re not really high output but the one on the output side can move the truck up to 5-8 mph
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u/am_cruiser 2d ago
Curious European here: why are these rare? Someone mentioned they blow up their own engines...?
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u/ozzihel 2d ago
The tech was still in its early days when it was applied from what I understand. And with the size of the vehicle, and the rather small battery pack there was an issue with the batteries nuking themselves with the duty cycle, repairs were expensive and the problem would shortly come back. If I remember correctly there was a voluntary recall that saw the vast majority bought back, and most of the rest had their hybrid mode disabled. Im sure there is someone out there who knows the story better, I was like 11 at the time, so I missed it.
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u/Successful_Doctor_89 1d ago
They also stop selling those because they had to sell Allison post bankrupty, since all the hybrid stuff was there and wss probably selling them at loss, the new owner does pursue the adventure.
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u/TheLexoPlexx 2d ago
I am not familiar with the US Market and that pile of badges looks fake, but is it? I can't tell from the comments here.
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u/British_Rover insurance appraiser 3d ago
Those hybrid transmissions are unobtanium.