Posted on 11/26/2008 7:38:18 AM PST by Bill Dupray
As a condition of bailing out the Big 3 Automakers, the Democrats want to control what kind of cars are made.
A few years ago the State of California, in its infinitesimal wisdom, told the car companies they had to make a car with no emissions.
The companies complied with the law and here's how that worked out . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...
I remember one of the car rags (Car & Driver, IIRC) saying the EV1 would have been a really fun car if they replaced the 1200-pound battery pack (about 40% of the car’s curb weight) and the electric motors with an internal combustion engine. Such a car would have been pretty similar to a Honda CRX, come to think of it.
Looks a lot like the CRX.
My ex had a CRX.
It was hard to get down to business in the back seat!
that car is the subject of a lefty documentary which claims that it was the answer to all that ails us, and that it disappeared only as the result of a dark conspiracy between the GOP, GM and Exxon-Mobil. I’m afraid their choo-choo has already gone around the bend on this one.
These cars were manufactured at the Lansing Craft Centre...hell, gm even tore the plant down after these things were done with...
is this the same elec car featured in “Who killed the electric car”
seemed like the drivers loved them, but they never addressed where the electricity should come from
The title is an example of what Sowell calls “stage one thinking”.
There have been MANY cars “mandated” by the government. The SUV being one of them.
Tax policy favors vans and SUVs (depreciation/deductibility).
Cars were subject to CAFE standards (bye bye stationwagon) but “trucks” were not (hello SUV).
The title is an example of what Sowell calls “stage one thinking”.
There have been MANY cars “mandated” by the government. The SUV being one of them.
Tax policy favors vans and SUVs (depreciation/deductibility).
Cars were subject to CAFE standards (bye bye stationwagon) but “trucks” were not (hello SUV).
Here's the last government that designed cars for the common folk.
“One of the reasons Detroit is in such difficulty is that consumers have been resisting the smaller, less powerful, less safe cars forced on the industry by fuel-efficiency mandates. Now Detroit would be forced to make even more of them.”
Well, that ‘resistance’ will go away once the democrats enact the rest of their agenda restricting oil exploration and higher federal taxes on gasoline. Also expect to see tax credits for buying high mileage cars produced in “economically distressed areas with high unemployment.” Toyota, Nissan, and Honda won’t qualify for the tax credits.
I used to own one of those Fords. Great car, but I found out the parts were pricey. Like triple the price of same parts for other models. So I got rid of it before anything major happened to it.
Had they stayed with their development program, they would have lead the market and been way ahead of Japan.
You can deride this car all you want, but in two years Toyota, Nissan and Honda, will once again take another market leap, while GM will be releasing a car with the same capability they had 17 years ago.
Oh, you say, they would have lostmoney. Yeah, we wouldn't want them to be losing money now would we. They're doing so well.
Laugh on!
The Big Three ought to send California a bicycle brochure and tell ‘em to go flip sand. Then maybe they could once again make cars the rest of us will actually buy. I am so sick of the loonies in CA dictating what the rest of the country can drive. >:|
Too bad they can’t, but I’d just have them ignore CA mandates altogether, and if CA stops sales, watch the people revolt and watch the mandates fall.
Then all we’d have left is to get rid of the f#cking stupid ethanol mandates and we’d all be getting 10% better mileage without hurting our engines and fuel systems.
Sounds just like Hitler's Volks Wagon. 
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