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SUV = Government Sanctioned Wagon/Hatchback
Posted by Jim (more from Jim) on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:47:45
In Reply to: SUV=Wagon when big 3 stopped making wagons, steve, Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:46:47
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The CAFE Standards was what drove carmakers shun wagons and build SUV's instead. Due to the extra weight of wagons and higher air resistence of square-off backs, wagon versions of cars burn more fuel. That would be okay in the free market place as people buy those wagons for functionality (although I have yet to see SUV haters accusing wagon owners for rarely using that extra hump space). CAFE rules however made manufacturing wagons bloat fleet fuel average. Hence the wagons have to become SUV's. Eventually even something as quitessentially wagon as the Subaru Outback became an SUV . . . by committee!
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Posts in this Thread:
- Lutz is Back!, Cloudship, Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:01:23
- This should scare everyone................, MI-Roger
, Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:52:07 - Re: Lutz is Back!, steve, Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:32:44
- Re: Lutz is Back!, TG, Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:45:24
- Other than for repeating often to become truth..., AeroBaron, Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:34:35
- Same dumb BOD, newwithasaab, Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:12:28
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