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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Back on topic, the thrust of the original posting seemed to be that makers are deliberately holding back somehow, is that the case or is it just advancing and increasingly cheaper technology being applied ?
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they are def holding back.
they have the technology in place.
think of the GDi's being introduced in several models now. that, as mentioned before, has been in use in diesel engines for something like 2 decades now. a simple, yet effective gas delivery system which allows for much less waste of fuel. and as mentioned, they have been able to produce cars as far back as 1950 that was able to achieve double what a similar (year prorated) car gets today. and that was with a carburated engine.
then you add to the fact that over seas vehicles of the same make/model that sells in the US is delivered from the factory getting almost twice the mpg that the US model gets.
I think it has to do with how much stock the oil companies have in US car manufactures, as well as how much say they have in our govt...