I think the internal combustion has quite a few years left in it. Hybrids are popular -at least in western Europe- but I personally feel they are a crappy half-step (yes, I loathe them) to the real next generation of vehicles, rather like minidiscs were a step between CDs and purely digital music.
As an overlander I would never buy any plasticy throwaway Europcrap car, let alone a glorified milk-float, but this is hardly relevant to 99.9% of road users. I'm happy for them to buy and drive whatever they want; I'll stick to my pre-common rail diesel and early-gen fuel injected petrol 4x4s made by Toyota until they can come up with something as versatile, rugged and reliable (all waning qualities in cars IMO).
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EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.
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