Do you think the government should force manufacture of fuel effciant cars?

Nate H

They have electric roadsters that do 0-60 in 3 seconds and have a 100 mile plus range lineing up for production. Just add a small desile generator and some solar panels and it will get 100 to infinity miles per gallon. Why don't they mandate hybred and solor car manufacturing! Think they should make a limit on how much fuel a vehical can consume? Like 1 gallon per hour private and 3 commercial?

Answer
You can't mandate something like that.

The consumer dictates what will be built. The companies respond to that.

When gas got to $3.00 a gallon, SUV and pickup sales went down to its lowest levels since 1995. People were looking into more efficient cars. Toyota and Honda had already thought ahead and been producting them. The government encourages it by giving tax breaks and allowing them into HOV lanes. The US car makers were still churning out SUV's and fell behind yet again. Now Toyota is poised to become the number one car maker because they're able to think ahead, innovate, and respond quicker to the market.

Now that gas is back to $2.06 a gallon, people are going *whew* and are driving SUV's again. But there is a percentage that are thinking ahead and are selling their SUV's and buying the Toyota's and Honda's.

You can blame the SUV and Minivan market in part on the increased safety levels required by the government. Since they require car seats for each kid, a family with three kids needs a larger vehicle so Minivan's were born. Guys were harassed about driving a "minivan" so the car manufacturers created SUV's to satisfy a guy's ego.

Then you have the Hummer type ads. You've seen them. Where they harass the moms now, calling them wimps and pressuring them to buy Hummers. What a bunch of crap.

would it be rude to do this?

The Vanill

so i'm really interested in the chevrolet volt, and my dad said he would maybe buy me a new/very nice used car if my driving record was clean by the time im 18. i'm 16 now and still have a clean record so if it worked out he would maybe buy me one in 2 years. so anyway, i really like the volt, and i think it would be a good car for me to have because i can use the electric fuel to and from school and plug it in every night, and then switch to gas for longer trips. but i want to actually feel how it drives and see if i really like it. now i know that test driving a car if i have no intention of driving it is extremely rude because salesmen would be wasting time with me when they could be dealing with a customer who actually wants to buy something, but would it be rude if i took a test drive anyway? because assuming that my dad's deal with me is still in place when im 18 i would really like to have this car but like i said im not sure because ive never driven it or anything.

Answer
Irrelevant. You cannot test drive a car until you are 18.

And yes, don't waste my fu(king time. It IS rude little kid.

20 years in car sales/management/finance and I would laugh you off the showroom (as any other self-respecting sales person SHOULD do). Can't get a car for 2 years and you want to test drive one?!? Come on. Bull$h!t.

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