From: Russell Blackford (rblackford@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 22:01:12 MST
Yeah, the Civic is a reasonably sized and reasonably powerful car for most
purposes these days. It may well be what I *will* buy next if I can ever
afford to go and get a new car. Honda makes cars that are really sweet to
drive. So exactly why are cars like this so unpopular in the US? Is it the
felt need to chauffeur around a stack of kids in something that feels
"protective"?
>From: BillK <bill@wkidston.freeserve.co.uk>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: Fuel Efficient Cars (was Oil Economics)
>Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 1:56:36 +0000
>
>Wed Feb 05, 2003 05:52 pm Russell Blackford wrote:
> > 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?
>
>What!! Compromise?!! On the extropians list?!??! ;-)
>
>Well, allright, if you must. The problem is that there just aren't many
>fuel efficient cars available in USA. The very small European cars will
>do about 50 mpg city, 55mpg fway. In USA, if you exclude diesel engines
>(because of boring performance) I could only find two cars that will do
>over 40 mpg on the freeway and still have reasonable comfort and
>performance.
>
>The Honda Civic 4cyl, 1.7 litre Lean Burn engine, manual shift 5-gear,
>is probably your best compromise - 36 mpg city, 44 mpg fway.
>The other was the Toyota Echo 4 cyl, 1.5 L, manual shift 5-gear - 35 mpg
>city, 43 mpg fway.
>
>These are what a European in America would buy. Most Americans wouldn't
>give a second's thought to cars this small!
>
>Regards, BillK
http://www.users.bigpond.com/russellblackford/
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