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I'll believe it when I see it.
From what I understand, the source is not very reliable.
I think they would lose a lot of potential customers with either of those changes.
Soooo... make up for the Wankel's puny torque and voracious fuel appetite with a big ol' pack of batteries and some electric motors? I call BS too...
::BS::
I think the next gen is a supercharged 1.6 gas engine.
I think it's going to run on Mountain Dew...
I hope they don't. Leave the hybrid hug a tree crap to the Priuses and whatnot of the world. The Miata is not a base for some kind of experiment. It's a sports car give it some ommph and a great chassis and roll it out the door.
Probably a Turbo Diesel with tons of torque that can run on B20 or French fry grease from Keller's Drive in :)
Oh and that would probably get 70MPG
jalopnik is one big bs site