2008 Mazda Tribute Hybrid - Car and Driver
After years of enviously watching parent company Ford ride the wave of the surging hybrid vehicle market with its Escape hybrid, Mazda finally gets what it should have had all along: a hybrid version of the mechanically identical Tribute. To be called the Tribute HEV, the environmentally friendly cute 'ute will make Mazda the last Japanese brand to offer a hybrid vehicle, even if it's not a real Mazda, when it's launched sometime toward the middle of this year. In the meantime, Mazda continues research on its hydrogen-powered RX-8 and hydrogen hybrid Mazda5 back in Japan, indicating that Mazda might not be as late to the hydrogen party as it was to the hybrid one. Source: www.caranddriver.com
