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Let's face it, the only reason that Detroit is paying any attention to fuel efficiency is because the consumers are, FINALLY!. It took $4.00 gas to make car buyers reconsider their choices. The auto industry has consistently opposed Federal mandates regarding fuel consumption standards because it costs money to build a more efficient car, money better spent on fancy interiors and power everything. Even the foreign manufacturers have even been sucked into this psychology. Witness the ever bigger, more powerful, fancier Japanese cars. Toyota had to create a whole new company (Scion) to produce a smaller, simpler, less up-scale line of cars.
Thanks for the info on the solenoid valve train. I had never heard of it, but now that I have it seems ridiculously obvious. No broken timing belts with the attendant crashed valves and pistons.
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