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Hybrids are becoming ever more popular and we may soon get the option of buying a hybrid Toyota Matrix and a hybrid Pontiac Vibe. Rumors are spreading that GM and Toyota have teamed up together to create more hybrid cars for consumers.

Apparently they are creating the 2009 Vibe at the NUMMI plant – which is run by both GM and Toyota. Whether or not they are using Toyota’s hybrid senergy drive technology or GM’s hybrid technology has not been established.

For now the evidence is circumstantial, but it’s possible. No matter what GM thinks of hybrids, the company made a mistake letting Toyota get so far ahead with hybrids such that now the Japanese brand has become practically synonymous with hybrids and is perceived to be atop a green moral high ground. True, there’s the Volt, and GM might not be doing anything with Toyota at all and it could just be a rumor. Or GM could surprise us with something completely new — it wouldn’t be the first time.

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