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Old 06-18-2012, 02:26 PM   #45 (permalink)
minispeed
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minispeed-Insight - '00 Honda Insight
90 day: 82.15 mpg (US)

MDX - '01 Acura MDX Touring
90 day: 22.29 mpg (US)

the wife's car - '13 Toyota Prius Plus
90 day: 45.99 mpg (US)

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The US still requires crash testing standards to account for an unbelted occupant. That restricts most of the small cars out of the US automatically. Probably the only way to meet that standard is to have a large padded dashboard. As north America. who's been in a third world seven sealer van with a Honda civic size footprint would notice it odd that the dashboard is only a few inches from the windshield. And with a nice twist some of the places that use those vehicles almost exclusively don't have seat belt laws.

But the fight was fought, battle was one, the US has the smart car, how well does it sell, how much interest does it even get from potential buyers cross shopping.it? Now there's the iq too which adds in 1 1/2 more seats, let's see how well that sells.
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