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Originally Posted by rmay635703
What Joe average wants is taught to him and based on what he can afford
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That's the unavoidable conspiracy theorist's explanation
It's tough to advertise cheaper cars in a geographically huge market, especially when they sell in few quantities.
Car mags like the high powered, over-specced cars best - of course, their journalists don't pay for them, nor for the fuel.
It's not that much different over here.
There used to be a market in the US for Metros, civics, and the like, but it seems to have evaporated.
As a result you most often won't get the real fuel sipper versions - if a model is brought over at all - but you get the highest-powered versions instead which are of course, less efficient.
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the leaf haters or prior prius haters
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That's what I was saying - both cars look odd / different / plain $h!t€ , with the Leaf looking particularly odd & ugly (small wonder, as Nissan also has the Puke in its line-up) though not particularly über-efficient.
The Prius looks most normal of the 2 now, but the first and second Prius were ugly ducklings.
Put an ingenious drivetrain in a bad or odd looking car, and chances are HUGE it won't sell.
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So long as the big auto makers don't offer alternative transport however the pace of change will continue to be very slow.
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Why would they need to offer "alternative" transport if it won't sell ?
They are companies that want and need to make a buck to pay tens of thousands of employees.
@ only 3 USD a gallon, the incentive to get a fuel sipper is losing its appeal.