Has Obama Asked Whether GM Can Build a 50mpg Car Like the 1979 VW Rabbit?
December 1, 2009 in Politics
Did you know that you can save fuel and run your car on water
At Smallest amount Hussein Kept us Safe questioned:
What excellent is a hybrid if 1970s equipment allowed 50 mpg vehicles over 25 being ago?
Tony,
Warm that Sphere! Warm that sphere with excuses. You signal like the $73/hour UAW
Did you know that you can save fuel and run your car on water
it’s only about union staff…..Obama can hotwire cars well, even if.
I skepticism many public will be able to meet the expense of a strain new car – VW or otherwise – with we get owing to emptying out our pockets to the regime to fund all the huge companies who screwed up and now are asking for the over-burdened taxpayer to foot the bill.
this has been a problem. the regime does not a car that can do that. that vw was a huge mistake. that’s why we don’t have it any longer.
He doesn’t have to question in view of the fact that it’s well celebrated to insiders that GM is focusing already on intersect vehicles and has much to offer appearance up……….
“Ahead of schedule this decade, GM place a foremost focus on humanizing its cars and rising the number of intersect vehicles that it offers. As a upshot, of the last 13 new GM harvest introduced in the U.S. 11 have been cars or crossovers. Of the next 19 launches, 18 will be cars or crossovers.
“Cars like the Saturn Aura, Chevy Malibu and Cadillac CTS have won foremost awards and are promotion well in a very tough market. GM is also the only U.S.-based company to offer a subcompact car, the Chevy Aveo, which we introduced back in 2003. A second subcompact, the Pontiac G3, joins the lineup ahead of schedule next year.
“GM crossovers like the Buick Closed society, GMC Acadia and Pontiac Vibe have become increasingly ordinary with customers who need the interval and helpfulness of an SUV in a more fuel-efficient wrap.
“The very hasty budge from trucks to cars that occurred when fuel prices spiked this jump has forced all carmakers to adapt. With its current and possibility manufactured goods lineup, GM is well positioned to take benefit of on the rise demand for fuel efficient vehicles.”
ETA: GM staff don’t make $75 an hour or even half that. The newest narrow turns affect care over to the union, reduction the company 9 b a year starting next year. New hire-ins get $15 an hour and wages paid out per vehicle are well-matched to unknown owned companies building in North America.
A 79 rabbit or Ford gala would never pass current US emissions or protection principles.
The consequence required to meet bestow protection principles and the added jabber to meet bestow emissions principles hurt the MPG ratings..
If full chrome moly tube form construction was used with a carbon structure bombard you may maybe cut the consequence WAY down..
But until they find a cost effecitve way to mass bent carbon structure in a high feature fashion we are blocked with steel.