06-12-2015, 05:52 PM
(06-12-2015, 05:15 PM)gstanford Wrote: and yet in the wake of the US car industry meltdown the American car industry promised the government in writing, published in major newspapers, that they would stop focusing on pickup trucks and SUV's and start developing cars that people actually want (cars a lot more like a Yaris than a pickup truck).
At least we know what the US car industries promises are worth - nothing. No wonder they are fighting Tesla tooth and nail over direct vs dealership sales, otherwise Tesla would wipe the dinosaurs out overnight.
And no, if the F150 magically cost the same as my Yaris both to purchase and fuel, I still would not want to purchase it over my Yaris. American SUV's and pickup trucks belong on railway lines, not urban streets!
That's what we need: Electric cars with toxic waste batteries, running on electricity created by coal burning.
So given the choice at equal cost you would drive far less car? Why don't you run AMD CPUs and a Wii console?