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Originally Posted by ebacherville
Honda proved that 50mpg cars were doable in 1984 with the CRX.. thats was 24 years ago!!!!! we should be seeing 100mpg cars today.. on the road in your garage.
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Here's a link to Aaron Golds (cars.about.com) that answers that very question.
http://cars.about.com/b/2006/05/12/w...-mpg-honda.htm
Aaron has a good point that based on government safety requirements and the minimal customer expectations for new cars they have become more inefficient. As you can read from Ecomodder's forum alot of modders are taking out the customer goodies to gain efficiency. The tougher thing is finding out ways to make cars just as safe but not inefficient. I'm not sure I agree with Aaron's point that diesel is the way to go. I tend to think electric is the future.