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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
Personally I think the manufacturers don't want to see any progress other than glacially slow evolutionary steps. One of the reasons I went to a 23 year old car. They aren't building anything that justifies the exponentially higher cost to just have that $30k plus cage sitting in the drive way.
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Well to be fair, a lot of the new German cars are coming with these nice features now (electric water pump or other kind of variable output water pump, variable displacement oil pump, auto start-stop, coasting features) but they are expensive cars that will likely damage the wallet in ways other than fuel usage.
For economy cars, minimum cost of production is still the golden rule. I think most cars are still using low fill ratio round conductor alternators and start-stop has yet to make it to the US for most models. I think some companies are still building 4 speed automatics? I think belt driven power steering is still pretty common on cheap cars. You definitely have to shell out a good amount of money for cars without these dinosaur features.