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Old 02-10-2014, 02:41 PM   #172 (permalink)
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sarguy, I am merely being facetious, I don't think that at all. I hear it said often on here and I was being sarcastic. Didn't mean to offend you.

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Not to pick on you, but I really dislike when people say this.

It is not always the case. Maybe there was a team put together by the automakers to test this and they found it was too expensive, didn't work well enough, made the car useless in cold/hot weather, etc. Or, maybe they didn't want to research the technology because it cost too much money.

Just because we haven't seen it on a production car doesn't mean it won't work. We don't see pie pan wheel covers on production cars, but we know they will increase mileage by a small percentage. My point is, there are lots of things auto makers can do, but there are lots of reasons why they don't.
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