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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
The fundamental problem in this country with new vehicles is the incessant quest for more horsepower to simply travel to the next red light. It's beyond the pale for a vehicle to have 200 hp to travel at speeds of 70 mph or less.
A vehicle with 125 hp can easily handle that task and offer fantastic fuel economy as a benefit of the smaller engine.
Unfortunately, Americans are just too stupid to understand how to drive a vehicle that goes 0-60 in 12 seconds. Their ego just cannot handle it because they cannot keep up with the DB in the next lane.
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Or in this part of the country, more size and weight just to show that you can have it.
We are COVERED UP down here with Suburbans and four door, long bed, dually, one ton pickups that never have anything in the back or anything on the trailer hitch. MOST people that have them do nothing more than drive back and forth to work by themselves or go to the grocery store. With energy being a concern it is nothing more than a fuel wasting fad.
Don't get me wrong, AFAIC anyone is free to drive whatever they can afford to put fuel in and find a place to park. Also there are indeed people that need vehicles like this to do their work. The vast majority of them around here are nothing but a display of something, I don't know what; wealth, masculinity (although many of them are driven by ladies,) little penis syndrome......
On top of the waste involved, half the people that drive them are incapable of parking them within even the largest of parking spaces.
End of rant.