Dodge Omini Horizons were getting near 50mpg at very low costs.
The price of cars has gone up do to the fight between the low weight fuel economy nazis, the add weight and loss fuel economy safety nazis, and the turn the engine into a water producing emissions low mileage air pollution nazis.
So, we get heavy, expensive, uber clean Honda Civics with poor mileage and now we got to fund electric cars because previous gooberment solutions to previous government problems.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
As in most things now, we are in a decaying death spiral of solutions to the results commanded by government for the problems it has caused.
As bad a modern MBA’s, Wagoneer, GM is/was, does anyone think it is going to be better? No. But at least the old GM didn’t forcefully rob money out of taxpayers. My dollars to donut bet is that GM goes worse, then bankrupt and taxpayers pay out after time 1-200 billion, maybe trillions more with post GM/Chrysler ‘assistance’ to ‘local and state’ governments( ie, town/city/state union workers and hack contractor friends).
By the way, can you imagine if say someone in Mexico, just over the border, starts a say Honda Accord rebuild like new plant, where you drop off your tired $3,000 dollar daily driver and for say 7k they rebuild it for another 150k miles, and because that is all they do, you pick it up in a week and it looks like new. Seats reupholstered, carpet, engine, trans and stuff removed rebuilt.
Houses, boat, aircraft have solid remodel business with good customer acceptance. I don’t see car owners wouldn’t accept it.
Check this guys operation out.
www.grandwagoneer.com/