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BonzoHansen · 12-03-2007, 06:38 PM

To be quite honest, the average car has too much power, tires that are too wide (rolling resistence) and too much weight. Cut them all a bit and you are getting close. With current transmissions and engine controls we are almost there.

Hell, with modern torque manangement they only have 400hp at WOT anyway. It is nothing like 400hp of the old days. The average soccer mom could no way handle it.

And too many people drive vehicles that are too big (suvs, etc.).

IMO if you really want to push up mileage, CAFE shoud be abolished and replaced with a gas tax or something. I think the dems are repeating the sins of the past instead of recognizing it's previous failure.

12-03-2007, 06:38 PM	#7
BonzoHansen Admin. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Hamilton, NJ Posts: 20,165 iTrader: (27)	To be quite honest, the average car has too much power, tires that are too wide (rolling resistence) and too much weight. Cut them all a bit and you are getting close. With current transmissions and engine controls we are almost there. Hell, with modern torque manangement they only have 400hp at WOT anyway. It is nothing like 400hp of the old days. The average soccer mom could no way handle it. And too many people drive vehicles that are too big (suvs, etc.). IMO if you really want to push up mileage, CAFE shoud be abolished and replaced with a gas tax or something. I think the dems are repeating the sins of the past instead of recognizing it's previous failure. __________________ Vent Windows Forever! The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read. Feather-light suspension, Konis just couldn't hold. I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors. Hey everybody, it's good to have you on the Baba-too-da-ba-too-ba-ba-buh-doo-ga-ga-bop-a-dop