Like I said, the damn things still roll over, hybrid or not. If they'd only fix the safety issues, these vehicles might be worth looking into. They won't, and so $40,000 is spared. :)

Not that I intend to spend it in the first place. One of the reasons I don't want to work in a small town is that I have absolutely no desire to own a car (or any half assed ability to drive one.) I'd rather bugger off to foreign lands than have to sink money into some clunker just so I can work in a town I don't want to be in off the top.