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Old 03-24-2009, 07:56 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by some_other_dave View Post
"Should"? Perhaps if you said that "it ought to be engineered to be able to". But I don't think you can make much of a case that a car with all of the features of the Yaris should be able to get Geo Metro FE.

In every way (except one!) that "most" consumers care about, the Yaris is an infinitely "better" car than the Metro was.
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There are many who say that manufacturing methods for carbon fibre should be scalable to make it cheaper to use than current sheet metal methods.

On this logic it should be possible to have your cake and eat it too, there is no reason the Yaris needs to weigh 600lbs more than a metro, its just engineered that way.

Get the weight and shape under control and you can have your "luxuriousness" along with FE.

That coming from me with my Comutacar and my 920lb Subaru 360
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