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Old 11-24-2010, 02:59 AM   #12 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls View Post
Happy belated birthday, Mech!

One party who is prominently to blame for the lack of streamlined cars is the car-buying public. They're a vain, shortsighted, ridiculously wealthy group, without whom the SUV never would have taken off. They have many priorities, and fuel economy is generally near the bottom of their wish list. Even for customers who value fuel economy, gas is cheap enough that 40mpg satisfies them.
Why look to the future when people are falling all over themselves to buy something because it looks like it's from the 60's or it's "got a Hemi?" The same knuckle draggers who belittle Prius drivers are driving trucks and large SUVs that are virtually unchanged since the Eisenhower administration.
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