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Originally Posted by Big Dave
The Hondas and Toyotas rusted out even faster than Pintos and Gremlins.
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Have to disagree with that. Where I grew up (in the Northeast), American cars would rust pretty darned fast. I remember helping a friend fix the rusted-out floor pan of an early Mustang, which couldn't have been more than 4 years old.
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US safety regulations eventually force cars to be heavy and environmental regs preclude the very efficient diesel engine.
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Those regulations aren't carved in stone. Maybe if enough people stopped whining about the high cost of gas (as if $4/gal was high), and started insisting on better fuel economy, we could get some of the stupidity changed. Just for instance, why should a car company have to go through two different sets of testing, European and US, on a car? Adopt common standards, and Ford & GM could have their economical European models on a boat the next day - then start retooling their US factories.