This is very common throughout the whole auto industry. People want more... more of everything. More space, more cupholders, bigger tires and rims, bigger seats to fit their bigger asses, more legroom, more gizmos, bigger trunks, BIGGER engines, more power, better ride through stiffer and heavier chassis.

Nowadays we rely on needlessly complicated hybrid cars to get great gas mileage when 20 years ago we had subcompacts barely weighing 2000 pounds with manual transmissions and little blender motors for engines getting great mpg.

Gas must not be so expensive after all. If it were expensive, people would not want more.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi