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Originally Posted by Miller88
Remember - lean burn Civic is a gross polluter as is a 50+MPG TDI. A V10 excursion is perfectly fine for the environment, though.
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Just because an engine is smaller or burns less fuel does not necessarily mean that it burns cleaner than a larger engine.
As well, there is a huge difference in number of Excursions vs Civics. Honda typically sells more Civics in a month than Ford sells Excursions in a year (so more than 12x Civics vs Excursions). Selling even just 5x lean burn Civics which emit the same emissions as an Excursion could give us as much as 10x the CO and 25x the NOx emissions as we have today... that would not be good!