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Originally Posted by Daox
How can your Frontier cost WAY less than your Metro?
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It's $1500 a year cheaper. Why? Well, for the answer to that you have to see the crash tests. The Frontier with ABS and dual air bags is far less likely to cause injury to it's occupants than a car that the government considered a safety concern in the days before the offset frontal crash test. I knew it would be more expensive, just not THAT MUCH more expensive. The odd thing is that for non-business insurance the difference in cost is only about 20%. Why it is 150% more for business insurance is beyond me. All I know is that in the future I will be consulting my insurance agent long before I shop for a car.
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No green technology will ever make a substantive environmental impact until it is economically viable for most people to use it. This must be from a reduction in net cost of the new technology, not an increase in the cost of the old technology through taxation
(Note: the car sees 100% city driving and is EPA rated at 37 mpg city)