Please say it isn't so...
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Please say it isn't so...
Just when I can finally afford to buy a sports car....
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/artic...13&topart=utes
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/artic...13&topart=utes
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From: AKA Harvey Mushman-I know just enough to be dangerous "Those who sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither"- B. Franklin
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Nobody is going to crush what's out there. Be glad that you're an adult in these great muscle car times. Go buy one or two. Too many people have said they wished they were old enough (or born) the last go round in the late 60s. This one is even better, but like the other, will end. Heck, there's plenty of grocery getters out now that could eat a 60's muscle car and get 30 MPG with low emissions.
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Just when I can finally afford to buy a sports car....
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/artic...13&topart=utes
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/artic...13&topart=utes
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IMO don't worry.
Worst case scenario: GM goes completely under and the Corvette team engineers start their own company designing cars that run on 500hp+ turbines and get 50mpg.
...oh and those wierd little GM badges won't be on these cars
Worst case scenario: GM goes completely under and the Corvette team engineers start their own company designing cars that run on 500hp+ turbines and get 50mpg.
...oh and those wierd little GM badges won't be on these cars
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The 2020 deadline is for cars bring built that year. it doesn't effect our cars. By the time the govt gets around to trying to effect what we currently have, me and my Vette will both be worn out.
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but don't wait to long or you won't have time to enjoy it.
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Ah, feh... they said the same thing about performance in the seventies, then in the eighties, and now they're saying it again. Don't worry, there will always be something new and better coming down the pike. 25 years from now there may be an electric Corvette with 1000 pounds of torque at idle. As long as there are people with money to burn, car makers will be offering needlessly fast vehicles. 
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Does anyone think that there is going to be a point reached where more fuel economy across the board simply isn't able to be achieved??? I know that Hillary was talking about 40 or 45 mpg by 2015 or something, but that just seems a bit far fetched. Maybe it's just a chance for the government to use it's CAFE regulations as a cash cow to dip into some funds?
Frankly, if the people want to spend a fortune in gas, let them. They'll decide when they're spending too much.
Frankly, if the people want to spend a fortune in gas, let them. They'll decide when they're spending too much.
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The first line of the article:
"The goverment is ready to take the gasoline out of car enthusiasts' veins."
Reminds me of another comment I recently read:
"Scratch green hard enough and you’ll see red. If you can’t control people by taxing them, control them by limiting what they can buy."
IMHO, the author of the 'End of an Era' editorial is so biased that he probably has a hammer and sickle tatoo on one arm and the Toyota logo on the other. "Unlike other Toyota vehicles, the Tundra drinks quite a bit of gas." Perhaps he's never heard of the Land Cruiser, Sequoia, 4-Runner or FJ Cruiser. Gimme an effing break!
"The goverment is ready to take the gasoline out of car enthusiasts' veins."
Reminds me of another comment I recently read:
"Scratch green hard enough and you’ll see red. If you can’t control people by taxing them, control them by limiting what they can buy."
IMHO, the author of the 'End of an Era' editorial is so biased that he probably has a hammer and sickle tatoo on one arm and the Toyota logo on the other. "Unlike other Toyota vehicles, the Tundra drinks quite a bit of gas." Perhaps he's never heard of the Land Cruiser, Sequoia, 4-Runner or FJ Cruiser. Gimme an effing break!
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This is stupid.
In my econ class we learned that CAFE fuel requirements and cars becoming more efficient (fuel efficiency) have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help the environment. As a matter of fact, the opposite is true. Studies have found that since cars have become more fuel efficient people have been driving a lot more and a lot farther, and that's what is having a negative impact on the environment.
Oh well, it's not like any politicians understand economics anyway, especially in the communist state of California.
In my econ class we learned that CAFE fuel requirements and cars becoming more efficient (fuel efficiency) have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help the environment. As a matter of fact, the opposite is true. Studies have found that since cars have become more fuel efficient people have been driving a lot more and a lot farther, and that's what is having a negative impact on the environment.
Oh well, it's not like any politicians understand economics anyway, especially in the communist state of California.