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A Fuel-Efficient Automobile – Can It Be Truly So Difficult To Create?

At least one third of new car buyers in America considered fuel economy an important factor.. Back in 1992 already General Motors built a vehicle that got 100 miles to the gallon - and all these years later one of people's major concerns on top of global warming and pollution is dependence on foreign oil. An additional automobile, the GM TPC, which looked a lot like the Geo Metro, weighed only 1000 pounds and could easily get 75 miles per gallon. Regrettably, to be able to meet American safety regulations, the 3-cylinder vehicle required reinforcement weighing 200 pounds, which resulted in further development being discarded.

It is fairly shocking that this wasn't the only GM prototype that was built, only to be thrown out later. A few of these were the 1982 GM Lean Machine which performed 80 miles per gallon, and the GM Ultralite which made 100 mpg. Once Honda in 1992 achieved 50 mpg with the Civic VX, GM was offering cars that got 20 mpg, while in the background they had vehicles capable of 100 mpg. Surely this begs the question as to the reasons these cars that are efficient at 100 mpg are not available to the public.

One more baffling thing is that many manufacturers, while selling fuel-eficient vehicles in foreign countries, are selling traditional gas guzzlers in the US. Cars that achieve more than 70 mpg have been available in Europe and Japan for a lot of years. For instance, the Volswagen Lupo has never been marketed in the united states - this is a car that gets 78 mpg. A car known as the Jazz elsewhere in the world was introduced to the States in 2007 as the Fit. There are economy-boosting options with the Jazz in Japan, such as a smaller engine and other ways to reduce consumption, but not so with the Fit in the US.

In The United States the manufacturers point out they have to build big cars simply because that is what the American public wants. Building a small commuter type vehicle doesn't make the manfacturer big money, unlike with a large SUV. A Tank on Wheels is the thing to have - that's the message that the commercials beguile the American public with. Fuel-saving options from the big companies are uncommon, so it's pretty easy to deduce where their interests lay. Instead of being synonymous with SUVs, GM today could have been known as a leader in fuel-economic vehicles. A number of other manufacturers also have developed fuel-efficient cars, but they've all ended up the same as GM by not offering them to Americans.

In spite of climatic change and the incredible pollution of the world environment, US car makers have yet to respond positively and at least give Americans the option of a fuel-efficient car. The question comes up: how many Americans could have appreciated the option of obtaining a car with good gas mileage but weren't ever offered it? Possibly the moment has come to restore building those cars that were developed only to be abandoned all those years ago. Watch escalade wheels.

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