To Hybrid or Not

To Hybrid or Not

At attended a car show this weekend at the Palmetto Expo Center. While glancing at all the beautiful works of art that were on display, the perfect paper would be about standard fuel vehicles verses the infamous hybrid's. Hybrids are the new hot item on the market making competition with the standard fuel vehicles.

Hybrids may be the hip new thing to hit the market but unlike their snazzy name their looks have a little to be worked on. There are not as many companies producing the hybrids so therefore there are not as many brands and styles available compared to the their fuel counterparts. Although within time every major company has plans to release a hybrid, let us just hope that there looks seem to increase as time goes by.

Next, most of us in the real world today own a standard fuel vehicle, which usually average about twenty to thirty miles a gallon, depending on the brand and style. However, with the new hybrid cars many of them can average between thirty to sixty miles a gallon. Even though that sounds really nice, many of us still choose a standard fuel vehicle. Also unlike when a tax return for a fuel vehicle, a hybrid may be used as a tax write-off, and could offer a rebate of up to five thousand dollars. Although taxes must still be paid on both vehicles when purchased from the dealership.

When a fuel car is purchased, right when it is drove off the dealership parking lot it automatically depreciates, where as the hybrid car shows a much lower depreciation rate than a standard fuel cars. The reason for that would be because they are in much more high demand than standard fuel vehicles. Either way you look at it though they are both going to lose value regardless.

Finally, when you think of a new period, you automatically think of the beautiful window sticker that goes along with the shiny new paint. Most standard cars start in the high twenty thousands and rise up to over fifty and sixty thousand, where as most of the new hybrid's that have hit the market are around the thirty thousand dollar mark. The only problem with the purchase of a hybrid is that many of us are still unsure of their dependability and their quality. Where as a standard American fuel vehicle we trust and we usually know what to expect from them. Of course though when it comes to maintenance the parts price is a lot different. If