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Craig 05-25-2008 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by H-townbenzoboy (Post 1865347)
They're trying to get a road system like that here in TX called the Trans Texas Corridor. Many are opposed to it because it would be tolled by a foreign intrest group, and is possibly part of a bigger plan to make Mexico, the US, and Canada one big nation.
Can you say paranoid?

POS 05-25-2008 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by jbach36 (Post 1864696)
We don't need cars that weigh 2,000 pounds. 4,000 pound cars somehow need to be phased out so a light car doesn't have to compete with a heavy car, and/or a way to then keep trucks and heavy cars away from the new lighter cars they should be making. We simply don't need 2,000 pound cars.
Tell that to the automaker's lawyers. All the safety and creature comfort crap that comes on cars now weigh them down considerably. The only way to get over it is to use more carbon fiber and more efficient engines. The carbon fiber ain't cheap, and the efficient engines are already on the market with more and better coming.

Hatterasguy 05-25-2008 08:50 PM
I figure if Toyota and Honda can screw 180hp out of a 4 cylinder that will do low 20's around town, and about 30 on the open road, they can get a 10mpg improvement out of that same engine by say dropping the power output by 50.

And taking some crap out of the car.

Craig 05-25-2008 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy (Post 1865552)
I figure if Toyota and Honda can screw 180hp out of a 4 cylinder that will do low 20's around town, and about 30 on the open road, they can get a 10mpg improvement out of that same engine by say dropping the power output by 50.

And taking some crap out of the car.
Yup, but can they sell any without a "hybrid" badge?

Hatterasguy 05-25-2008 09:10 PM
At $5 a gallon...yes!:D

People are going to start to want 30-40 mpg cars.


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