From: Russell Blackford (rblackford@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 00:24:43 MST
Hello Lee: It's been ages, buddy!
Yeah we do tend to favour smaller cars here, but nothing like in the way
you'd experience in a city like Rome. Even around the inner suburbs of a
city like Melbourne a lot of people feel the need to buy large four-wheel
drives, which are traffic hazards in their effect on visibility...leaving
aside issues of fuel efficiency.
>From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: <extropians@extropy.org>
>Subject: RE: Fuel Efficient Cars (was Oil Economics)
>Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:45:32 -0800
>
>Russell Blackford writes
>
> > 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"?
>
>Hi Russell! Yes, welcome back! Here are my two cents: America was taken
>over by automobiles quite a few years sooner than most other countries,
>and the large size of American cars could be a relic of that era. If
>you build streets and highways to accommodate large cars, it could have
>a lingering effect.
>
>There have to be a number of countries, like Mexico and Canada that
>always got most of their cars from the U.S., so it would be interesting
>to know if tastes in those countries more nearly resemble U.S. tastes,
>or European tastes. From what you write, it would sound like Oz favors
>European-sized cars.
>
>Lee
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