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15/08/2008 15:16. Tired of being tied to Toyota's coattails in the hybrid race with its Toyota-licensed front-wheel-drive hybrid powertrain in the 2008 Nissan Altima Hybrid , Nissan has developed a rear-wheel-drive hybrid system of its own.

We drove the 2008 Infiniti G35 Hybrid Prototype at Nissan's proving ground in Oppama, near the seaport town of Yokohama, Japan, and it makes us think that a hybrid performance car from Infiniti could be in our future.

While we tried out this system in a 2008 Infiniti G35 Prototype, this won't be the car Nissan finally introduces two years from now. We know, because Nissan's Minoru Shinohara, senior vice president of technical development, told us so. Of course, we wouldn't be a bit surprised to see a hybrid version of the Infiniti G37 sedan show up a year or so after... // Edmunds.com/Inside Line