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GM and the rest of the american car manufactures are doomed .. GM has all these green car commercials.. yet there best MPG car sucks.. there "VOLT" is a pipe dream still and there marketing the heck out of it.. not to mention its a aerodynamic shiny version of a brick..
the one thing that i do see if crash test standards are insane, now adays you can drive a new car into a brick wall at hiwayspeeds and walk away.. thats all good but.. these standards have made it so i cant choose to buy a very light weight fuel efficient car that may not have as good of a crash rating..
There are tons of light fuel efficient cars that we cant get in the us due to there mandated standards.. Yet i can go buy a older car thats got no air bags and is light and efficient and or a motor cycle..
My opinion of the way this will go down either well start seeing motorcycle cars.. aka three wheel cars as there considered motorcycles.. or well see some of these imports that arnt legal in the USA being allowed in.. Or in a idea world, new process for carbon fiber production etc allowing weights to go down and MPG's to go up.
However, on top of all this.. it still shocks me how every american complains about fuel prices .. and then floors there suburban it to pass me at 57mph in a 55mph zone.. Americans are to big for there britches in my opinion... they need to get of there high horse and make some sacrifice in there lifes.. it's been a decade of more big cars big houses , biger and better than the neighbor.. time to slim down a bit... do you really need a 7-9 passanger SUV or minivan to drive your single butt to work.. Sincy you have 2 kids, do you really need a 7 passenger vehicle? If you need cargo space isn't a small trailer a good option or a station wagon?
I remeber in 83 my dad bought a new cavalier station wagon, ordered from the factory specifically for MPG, got a 5 speed wagon with the only option being cruise control. he hauled more crap with that, chest freezers inside of the car all the groceries you could imagine etc.... and he towed our 24 foot fiber glass boat behind it with no problems.. and the thing got near 40mpg.. too bad the body rusted out way before the engine died.. the only thing that he ever had to do to it was a clutch.
As for the cars of the past.. yeah bring back the horizions and omni's or better yet redesign then but keep them light and fuel efficient.. keep there heritage.. dodge really shocked me when i went to the website and the best MPG car they had was 32 mpg.. next was the diesel sprinter van at 30mpg.. I think with dodges lifetime warrantee and a 50mpg car they would sell like hot cakes..
But then again im not a SUV loving gas sucking average American either.. I like to spend money on things besides cars and fuel.
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