Fit (or any sub compact) vs Smart Car
#21
06-23-2010, 09:56 PM
Roger Penske is behind the Smart car being in the U.S.
The Smart car also shows the idiocy of our government. The gas Smart is available, but the diesel isn't. The diesel Smart gets I think over double the mileage of the gas Smart, or close to double anyway. So if people at the EPA were really concerned about the environment, the importation of the diesel would be a no-brainer. But no, that's not federalized, yet somehow Europeans and Canadians aren't suffocating in clouds of black exhaust. See the hypocracy?
It's too small for my needs, but I love the fact that they are available to anyone that wants them, and that's how it should be for many more "S.W.A.G.", or Stuff We Ain't Gettin', vehicles. I mean if a car is safe enough to be on the market in Japan and Europe, the rest of the freakin' First World, then they should be safe enough for U.S. sale. But I guess that's too logical.
The Smart car also shows the idiocy of our government. The gas Smart is available, but the diesel isn't. The diesel Smart gets I think over double the mileage of the gas Smart, or close to double anyway. So if people at the EPA were really concerned about the environment, the importation of the diesel would be a no-brainer. But no, that's not federalized, yet somehow Europeans and Canadians aren't suffocating in clouds of black exhaust. See the hypocracy?
It's too small for my needs, but I love the fact that they are available to anyone that wants them, and that's how it should be for many more "S.W.A.G.", or Stuff We Ain't Gettin', vehicles. I mean if a car is safe enough to be on the market in Japan and Europe, the rest of the freakin' First World, then they should be safe enough for U.S. sale. But I guess that's too logical.
#22
06-23-2010, 11:02 PM
HotIron - we can all thank the tremendously rich litigators and insurance moguls and the smoke and mirrors thrown up by the corporate world.
#23
06-24-2010, 12:08 AM
Roger Penske is behind the Smart car being in the U.S.
The Smart car also shows the idiocy of our government. The gas Smart is available, but the diesel isn't. The diesel Smart gets I think over double the mileage of the gas Smart, or close to double anyway. So if people at the EPA were really concerned about the environment, the importation of the diesel would be a no-brainer. But no, that's not federalized, yet somehow Europeans and Canadians aren't suffocating in clouds of black exhaust. See the hypocracy?
It's too small for my needs, but I love the fact that they are available to anyone that wants them, and that's how it should be for many more "S.W.A.G.", or Stuff We Ain't Gettin', vehicles. I mean if a car is safe enough to be on the market in Japan and Europe, the rest of the freakin' First World, then they should be safe enough for U.S. sale. But I guess that's too logical.
The Smart car also shows the idiocy of our government. The gas Smart is available, but the diesel isn't. The diesel Smart gets I think over double the mileage of the gas Smart, or close to double anyway. So if people at the EPA were really concerned about the environment, the importation of the diesel would be a no-brainer. But no, that's not federalized, yet somehow Europeans and Canadians aren't suffocating in clouds of black exhaust. See the hypocracy?
It's too small for my needs, but I love the fact that they are available to anyone that wants them, and that's how it should be for many more "S.W.A.G.", or Stuff We Ain't Gettin', vehicles. I mean if a car is safe enough to be on the market in Japan and Europe, the rest of the freakin' First World, then they should be safe enough for U.S. sale. But I guess that's too logical.
#24
06-24-2010, 06:14 AM
If we were serious about "free trade," we'd eliminate the double standards and embrace International ECE regulations. Imagine if Euro cars and North American cars could be shipped back and forth at will. It's not as if Euro NCAP is some type of bumbling 3rd world standard - it's actually more in line with the stiffer IIHS crash testing.
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Nothing is "free" in this world. All markets are protected and is not to protect the consumer, though we are burden [guilt -the ultimate motivator] with that thought. All we are left with is to imagine.
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