Hybrid Rocket

Hybrids may or may not be the wave of the future, but the average joe doesn't really care. (I care, and YOU might care, but you just don't see many people in the things) Anyway, it occurs to me that a big part of the reason that they are not very sporty. There's a "wimp" factor to anything with an engine that small, except for maybe a go-kart. The trick to getting hybrids accepted, even desired, might be to make a very, very impressive hybrid car. It shouldn't be that hard. Normally hybrids center their existance on fuel efficency- they try to use as little of the engine as they can, just kind of sipping on their battery. You don't really notice the engine. What I propose is a sportscar with a normal sized engine, a V-6 or a V-8, linked to an efficent generator and a very powerful capacitator. Rather than "sipping" the engine, the engine runs all the time at a high RPM, charging the capacitator if it's not driving the car. The car runs off of the capacitator, maintaining its charge when at full speed by use of the engine. Nothing remarkable there. It should be pretty much the same as a normal car. But when it comes time to race, things get interesting! Rather than pumping the gas and dropping the clutch as so many people are fond of doing on the drag race circuit, our car charges it's capacitator to full while sitting there, and then shoots the whole wad at one go off of the line. This delivers -tremendous- horsepower for a few seconds. Hopefully, the result is an exotic car that puts boring old cars to shame. And THAT shows the public that rather than a "weak" or "tree-hugging environmentalist" technology, hybrid cars have the potential to be just plain better than plain ones.