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Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US
computermesh writes "Ford has a vehicle that gets 65MPG and will not be released in the US. Why? Because they can not afford to! 'Ford's 2009 Fiesta ECOnetic goes on sale in November. But here's the catch: Despite the car's potential to transform Ford's image and help it compete with Toyota Motor (TM) and Honda Motor (HMC) in its home market, the company will sell the little fuel sipper only in Europe. "We know it's an awesome vehicle," says Ford America President Mark Fields. "But there are business reasons why we can't sell it in the U.S." The main one: The Fiesta ECOnetic runs on diesel.'"
Didn't I see this almost two weeks ago on digg? /. needs to stop posting way old news.
But California's under the mistaken belief
You are speaking out of your ass. Converting corn to bio-deisel will cause inflation of value. It takes somthing like 600 pounds of corn to create 25 gallons of ethanol, which feeds a fatass American for over 15 months. Not to mention that corn strips the soil of nutrients quicker than cotton. What will they think of next that will MAKE MONEY and KILL THE ONES THAT CAN'T BUY?
Try the kill-all: HHO. Look for a good setup of plates or cylinders, in stainless 316L.
Hydrogen-Hydrogen-Oxygen, plenty of it before and after, and the pre-arrainged setup to create it is under US $75, so what the FUCK keeps you from trying it? or you can build your own for under US $30, so get off your worldly griesel ass and stop flooding the forum with your snivveling "We gots to yoose only diesel" and "water-powered things are lunzatics lol" !!!one11
Second, how about getting out, going behind a 2009 diesel
WTF, you have a time machine? Who's the President? Does Britney go back to rehab? Is 2009 finally the year of Linux on the desktop?
which is totally what she said
Also I forgot to mention the incredible butt load of cash you'll have to lay out to repair even minor problems with your VW.
Everyone I have talked to regarding the German vehicles has said that the repair and maintenance costs more than offset the longer lifespan of the vehicle.
If you want the best bang for the buck these days look to a Honda or a Hyundai. High quality, long life vehicles that get good gas mileage and hold their values. They are no more expensive to repair than their American counterparts using commodity parts.
The American counterparts are subpar in many respects and used to come with a smaller price tag. Now days they actually come with a higher price tag than the higher quality Japanese vehicles.
Gas powered engines can also be engineered to have flat torque bands and max power at lower rpms. My Mazda cranks out 280 ft./lb at 5000 or so RPM. The line you recite is a common rationalization for diesel engines, when high torque and narrow powerbands aren't the sole territory of diesels. The thing about the Le Mans Audis is how awesome those cars are IN SPITE of the fact they run on diesel. It's another aspect of the marketing required to convince people diesels are a good thing (not saying they aren't, it's just a concerted effort on the diesel industry's part to portray their self-interests in positive lights).
I discovered during the gulf war that in my car, a 76 corolla, if I bought Texaco premium I would get 40mpg vs 30mpg on regular.
Do you know why?
Because the regular explanation of the difference between regular and premium - higher octane - does not explain how you could get 33% better mileage on a car so old (and cheap) that it doesn't have fuel injection, never mind a computer managing the mix.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
This is called a CARTERPILLAR. As a cyclist I see lots of them - so many I am considering becoming an Automotive Entomologist :) One day we will ride over the top of them, on Trials bikes. I beg to differ on the matter of their creation and possible solutions - "except for removing anything that could be perceived as a hilltop." You leave them damn hills alone. That's what we like to call a 'view'. Alt.pave-the-earth is /so/ 1994.
You would have to also remove all the other little things that cause drivers to take their attention away from the flow of traffic...
Do you remember when people used to know where they were going, before they turned the key? Those were the days.
By the time you finish reading this sentence will end.
Well, he seems to have a lot of hot air. Perhaps he can talk into a fan that's attached to a generator.
Everyone wants to throw perception of "thermodynamics laws" into my face. All you idiots can't comprehend that the bonds of that H2O molecule can be split with an absolute efficiency of infinity using a technique called the Raymond Royal Rife effect.
The law of Thermodynamics and Energy Conservation is a butt-fucking Myth. That Post above me about the solar-powered electric toy car, you are almost there and I offer you my stinky finger to contine the quest to http://OUPOWER.COM.
Why don't you go out and look around at all the entrepreneurs selling the kits at their conventions, rather than respond with the default troll of "thermodynamics blah blah more in than out."
You can find me on the #joecell channel where we stuff our homebrew h2o-electrolyte electrolytic negatively-charged capacitors up your pathetic whigger ass because you absolutely fucking FAILED to disprove me on the basis of the Royal Raymond Rife effect which pounds the STuFUcking out of your hook-nosed kike GoldBerger jewy jewbahka response.
In Rod you trust, you tard.
Engine braking is illegal in many counties near me (north texas/dallas area). It annoys the crap out of me.
Add in the the high cost of diesel and the fact that the car wouldn't get 65mpg in the US! What people don't get is when they see MPG ratings for European cars they are using imperial gallons not US gallons.
That is also why US cars look like they get such bad mileage when you compare them. So this car would only get 52 MPG in the US. It only gets 52MPG in the UK as well if you us US gallons.
Some people from the UK wanted to know why US cars got such "bad" mileage. They didn't realize that a gallon wasn't a gallon.
Still a nice car. If they could make it here and sell it for $18-20 k it would sell.
Too bad they can not make the engines in the US and export them to the UK. With the low dollar they would make more money in European market and we could have the engines here.
My guess is that there are some tariff, union, or tax reason for not doing it.
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