Let me build a car from scrath with my own design and reasonable safety measure (also of my own design) and I could easily design you a 50 MPG car that could move 4 people.
Add in the tons of weight and ant- pollution nonsense and you get what we got now.
>> “Let me build a car from scrath with my own design and reasonable safety measure (also of my own design) and I could easily design you a 50 MPG car that could move 4 people.” <<
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The VW Rabbit diesel was doing better than that in 1977.