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- Maverick Hybrid Lariat, Subaru WRX
The biggest thing Iāve noticed people have a hard time getting over is the engine not rising and falling with the change of gear found in a ānormalā transmission. If you donāt understand how a hybrid drivetrain works it might sound like the car was stuck in a single gear. Itās just so different from what you are used to that it sounds kinda off, like something isnāt right.Since we aren't buying the maverick hybrid for the race track I hadn't really thought about acceleration too much. But in the past week I drove a 15 forester with the base engine and that thing feels slow. Looks like its 0-60 in 9 seconds. I'm hoping that since the Maverick has a different hybrid system than the Escape and Ford has figured out how to make it slightly quicker. Looks like other small SUV hybrid SUVs are in the 7 second range so it has to be possible.
Does anybody know how hybrids do accelerating to pass at highway speeds? I'm guessing the gas engine is doing most of the work there.
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