Welcome on-board 98'Subby
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Originally Posted by 98'Subby
I always kind of wondered how Cars in europe got so much better gas mileage. My Grandpa's stock E class sedan gets like 35/40 and it's heavy and powerful. Always scratched my head about that one. But i guess it makes sense, gas has always been expensive there.
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Most people doesn't care about their fuel consumption. Since this year they care about the green intensives, and a little about CO2 emissions as it's rating the intensives.
French constructors have little efficient cars because during first petrol crisis the French government gave them a lot of money to conceive them, but during the last 15 years the FE and Cd are rather constant. People are buying these cars because they are small, not because they are efficient.
As my math teacher was saying me :
in the country of blind people, the one-eyed are kings.
ie: why should they improve as nobody is trying to do better
Denis.