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Old 01-06-2009, 10:27 PM   #110 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
I think most of us are probably just going on past performance. We've had several decades of listening to Detroit say "but we can't possibly do that", where "that" seems to be anything but build bigger cars with worse fuel economy. So why should we believe them this time around?
Especially when foreign manufacturers are doing what they have so much trouble with. If no one could put out a T2B5 diesel w/ better performance and similar mileage I'd be inclined to agree, but there are other companies doing what the ones from Detroit can't seem to figure out, so it doesn't look like this is a technology and/or cost issue.
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