Comments on: New York Auto Show: The SUV Strikes Back http://ecomodder.com/blog/york-auto-show-suv-strikes/ Wrench smart - driver smarter - save fuel Tue, 22 May 2012 13:00:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cheap cars@motoring http://ecomodder.com/blog/york-auto-show-suv-strikes/comment-page-1/#comment-4737 Cheap cars@motoring Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:47:16 +0000 http://ecomodder.com/blog/?p=1027#comment-4737 Maybe if engineers from the past had there thoughts cars would be alot more reliable and less costly. Cars today i think are trying to take on too much we have the right fuel i think and that is diesel, a diesel car won the green car award for 2010 so what are manufacturers doing wrong? They are thinking of profit instead of the customers needs. Cash for clunkers legistlation was brought i feel to get rid of the old and force us into buying something new. The thing is we had it right first time the cars we had just need modifying a little. Maybe if engineers from the past had there thoughts cars would be alot more reliable and less costly. Cars today i think are trying to take on too much we have the right fuel i think and that is diesel, a diesel car won the green car award for 2010 so what are manufacturers doing wrong? They are thinking of profit instead of the customers needs.

Cash for clunkers legistlation was brought i feel to get rid of the old and force us into buying something new. The thing is we had it right first time the cars we had just need modifying a little.

]]> By: theunchosen http://ecomodder.com/blog/york-auto-show-suv-strikes/comment-page-1/#comment-4151 theunchosen Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:17:29 +0000 http://ecomodder.com/blog/?p=1027#comment-4151 In other places around the world small cars have always been in. This is likely because the countries that produce most imports(or at least the designed was imported if the actual car wasn't) are from countries with extremely high population density. US population density is roughly a person per square mile. You wouldn't be able to see the 4 people spread around you. Japan and Europe you could hit one of your neighbors with a rock and they wouldn't be able to tell who threw it. To fit their high densities they have very very small roads. Literally you wouldn't be able to fit an SUV in pretty much any city street without crushing either the oncoming traffic, parked traffic or both. Walking down the street and walking past a Smart ForTwo you don't immediately notice, "hey thats tiny!" If you happen to be eating a sandwhich coming out of a store you notice. That said US citizens prefer larger vehicles. period. Put gas prices at a dollar a gallon for three months and offer them a dealer with a model of every car of every manufacturer in the world in every color and package. half of them will pick an SUV/truck. What is annoying is why are these things still looking like bricks with V8s, AWD, and made of rolled steel? Why not composites? Why not v6 or L6? why not FWD? Why can't the nose slope so the noses are not so hideously aero ugly? Oh yes, thats right. Because for the last 10 years cars have been designed by stylists/designers who watch MTV and pimp my ride. Not engineers. In other places around the world small cars have always been in. This is likely because the countries that produce most imports(or at least the designed was imported if the actual car wasn’t) are from countries with extremely high population density. US population density is roughly a person per square mile. You wouldn’t be able to see the 4 people spread around you. Japan and Europe you could hit one of your neighbors with a rock and they wouldn’t be able to tell who threw it.

To fit their high densities they have very very small roads. Literally you wouldn’t be able to fit an SUV in pretty much any city street without crushing either the oncoming traffic, parked traffic or both. Walking down the street and walking past a Smart ForTwo you don’t immediately notice, “hey thats tiny!” If you happen to be eating a sandwhich coming out of a store you notice.

That said US citizens prefer larger vehicles. period. Put gas prices at a dollar a gallon for three months and offer them a dealer with a model of every car of every manufacturer in the world in every color and package. half of them will pick an SUV/truck.

What is annoying is why are these things still looking like bricks with V8s, AWD, and made of rolled steel? Why not composites? Why not v6 or L6? why not FWD? Why can’t the nose slope so the noses are not so hideously aero ugly?

Oh yes, thats right. Because for the last 10 years cars have been designed by stylists/designers who watch MTV and pimp my ride. Not engineers.

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