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if you're an s-class driver your top priority is not saving a few bucks on gas but mercedes-benz knows luxury buyers like two other companies so here they are with an s550 hybrid what are they going after a luxury buyer who doesn't necessary to save money but likes the sophisticated smart positioning of a hybrid as well as the environmental responsibility that goes around it it's a progressive educated crowd what's happening here is a v6 hybrid that they say will deliver the torque and horsepower of a v8 with the efficiency of a four we don't have an epa rating on the MPG yet so we'll leave that for now some numbers 436 horsepower 479 pound-feet of torque that'll move this big beast up to 60 in around five point two seconds that's going to be scintillating by the way it gets twenty miles on pure EV range on a charge and that should be about a two hour chart it's not a huge battery it doesn't run very long on electric last little detail I want to point out to you is something called a haptic accelerator pedal and I haven't driven this car I don't know exactly what it feels like but they describe it as giving you a little little kicks little bumps like any other haptic system for example one that might tell you with a double tap it's time to lay off the gas and Coast because the cars figured out it's a great time to regen and not burn fuel it might also tell you with another bump that it's going from electric to gas or some other drive modes we haven't seen that before look at one of these in as soon as we can and see really what the merging is of green and ostentatious