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Old 02-02-2012, 06:44 PM   #27 (permalink)
pete c
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
You're blaming the wrong people (mostly, anyway). It's perfectly possible to get decent cars approved under US regulations. Lotus does it, as does Porsche. Mazda has the Miata, BMW & Merecdes their 2-seaters, and so on. No, the people most at fault are the US auto industry and their advertising/propaganda firms, who spend large amounts of money brainwashing most Americans into believing that they actually want those oversized, overstuffed, handle-like-a-waterbed "safe" cars.
I believe there is blame enough to go around. Part is the automakers themselves, but, I believe the majority of the blame still falls on the feds with their excess regulation, just as they do in every other area of our lives to muck things up.
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