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Originally Posted by Big Dave
If you have to ask, you don’t know safety regs.
You wanna legislate technology to get better MPG? Outlaw the automatic transmission. Safety would be improved as well. You’d have to be an octopus to jabber on the cell phone and shift gears.
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Amen, tell it brutha...
It's funny to read about crash testing and model ratings. Put into context, just about the worst rated car today would have been outstanding just 10 years ago. How many of us gladly drove (and survived) commuting in a car without airbags? show of hands please... how many are glad they now have them? Yea, I want to grow old someday, too...
I have come to many of the same conclusions I've read here.
It's a changing model here in the US... $4.50/gal fuel prices is brand new, the almighty consumer will set the tone for future offerings. BTW, even after I tried and tried to convince her otherwise, my ex bought a new SUV about 2 yrs ago... "I like to see over the other traffic..." you can't educate some people
another random comment: GM isn't forcing anything down anyone's throat. They continue to offer a product they can turn a profit on. Like every car company, they have no social responsibility and care little past the next sale. They are in business to turn a profit their stockholders, but manufacturing cars is a 2-4 year cycle, they set the plans in motion years ago for what they will offer today. The biggest thing the GM brass is guilty of IMO is a poor view in to the future... or maybe being too focussed on the short term. They are paying dearly for it (look at the dealer lots full of SUVs and trucks that aren't selling). Most on this forum saw it coming, I'm sure.