Their ultimate goal is to shove us into their absurd public transport projects, with brute force if necessary.
By the way, is that car a Smart, made by a joint venture (if my memory serves) of Mercedes and the Swatch watch people?
If so, Car magazine (UK) tested it and if my memory serves, you'll love it if you want to get into really tight parking spaces, hate it otherwise.
I don't like SUVs myself because they're ugly. But my Mercedes 420SEL sedan is hardly a fuel conservation paragon :-).
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No, the ultimate goal is for you and I to share one forty watt bulb (per household), a rice bowl and a bicycle.