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Old 09-22-2011, 10:31 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Last 3: 69.62 mpg (US)

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If everybody kept designing for that, we'd still be driving Flintstone-mobiles.
Not so. With EFI, a/ts, traction control, stability control, ABS, airbags, etc., and etc., one practically needs no skill at all to drive.

The mechanix mags have featured airless tires that were "right around the corner" for 80 years now. I won't be holding my breath for that one.

The large contributer to lousy fe isn't GM, it's the fact that the customers are choosing GM full size pickups and SUVS instead of compacts.

There is no production Loremo but there is a physical one that presumably has been tunnel tested.
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