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Originally Posted by Fr3AkAzOiD
I'm not bashing, I love my Cobalt XFE.
I'm just thinking they could have done better.
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I'm going to agree with you 100% in that they could have done better and gotten a higher MPG rating on the Cruze, but I look at what the general American public really buys car wise. A high percentage of Americans love powerful engines. They want a certain level of performance or they will not buy it. High gas prices will eventually change this mentality though.
I bought a 2000 Toyota Echo brand new from a Toyota dealer. Great car and that car did get 40 MPG overall. It was not loved though and did not sell well. That car did really well in all of the Consumer Reports car reviews. That is a very hard car to find used especially with a manual transmission due to low sales numbers.
When I find a used Honda VX for sale 70% of the time the car has had a more powerful engine swapped in it(the tuner crowd loves this car). The original engine is gone...