From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 18:25:12 MST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Blackford
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:53 PM
>
> I just calculated that my 1988 Honda Integra with a somewhat
> hotted up 1.6
> litre engine can still do about 45 miles per gallon in
> highway traffic
> (though it drops to something more like 30 miles per gallon
> in city traffic
> conditions), with plenty of power for climbing hills, etc. It
> also delivers
> a lot of comfort. And that is a 15-y.o. car. Surely we could
> do better now.
>
> So you don't have to drop down to a little underpowered boxy
> thing to have
> what I'd consider a pretty good compromise of comfort,
> performance and fuel
> consumption. What do you guys on this thread consider an acceptable
> compromise if cars that get 40-50 mpg in American city
> traffic are out of
> the question?
I get 20-25mpg city and 25-35 highway with this:
http://gregburch.net/cars/vette20020907.html
It's got a 5.7 liter engine and eats Porches and Ferraris for snacks.
Obviously, I'm a "car guy." BTW, I have some *very* strong opinions
about SUVs:
http://www.gregburch.net/cars/suvs.html
Greg Burch
Vice-President, Extropy Institute
http://www.gregburch.net
>From: Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: RE: Fuel Efficient Cars (was Oil Economics)
>Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:17:23 -0500
>
>BillK wrote:
> >
> > To sum up, even if petrol prices in USA double or triple, it will
> > take years before the American public will want small cars and
> > dealers will be able to provide them.
>
>
>### Exactly. To accept the loss of quality of life that comes with a
>Lupo, would be for me devastating.
>
>If only Europeans knew what they are missing by driving whatever cars
>they drive, the groundswell of popular anger would sweep their gas
>taxes away.
>
>I hope the US will never be reduced to driving in a Yugo, again.
>
>Rafal
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