Comments on: Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW http://www.hybrid-rental-car.com/laugh-at-high-gas-prices-with-a-282-mpg-vw/60 Fri, 21 May 2010 15:55:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jay Dillon http://www.hybrid-rental-car.com/laugh-at-high-gas-prices-with-a-282-mpg-vw/60/comment-page-1#comment-164 Jay Dillon Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:07:01 +0000 http://www.hybrid-rental-car.com/laugh-at-high-gas-prices-with-a-282-mpg-vw/60#comment-164 i would like any car getting over 100 mpg, or using no gasoline at all, but it has to be very durable suspension/frame preferably mostly carbon fiber composites and other materials that do not rust. unfortunately, most car manufacturers seem to think they are forced to either conform to the unwritten 1920 25 mpg rule of Henry Ford, or must be able to top 250 miles per hour, accelerate 0 to 60 mph in 5 seconds with car stereo TV and internet GPS and wet bar blaring with 15 drunk people dancing on the tables inside the car. very few sane people need such fast supercars. not sure why it is even legal to sell cars that are able to go so far over the top speed limit in the country they are being sold, or, for emergencies and passing speed flexibility, perhaps 100 mph max. it seems we get these amazing concept cars that cannot yet be purchased, available in perhaps 5 years (by then they will be pathetically outmoded, replaced by yet the next most amazing supercars, themselves also unavailable for another 5 years, etc.); or we are told by car manufacturers that it will be at least 10 years before we can increase the fleet mpg average by another 5 mpg. this is absurd in the extreme. we need practical cars, now, available to buy, in car showrooms for actual purchase, at affordable prices, and not all increasing to luxury status with every single gadget draining power and reducing mpg! is this so hard to grasp? this is largely why Henry Ford invented the assembly line, to make the latest tech available to the masses at reasonable cost, and get a healthy, fair and reasonable profit for the manufacturer... not, as it seems to be now, to make company profit margin grow superexponentially over that of the previous 3 months, and better-- otherwise, all investor confidence disappears, the greedy cowards bail out and let the company fail completely down to fifty cents a share, then all shareholders are dumped and the workers fired and abandoned. it is fair to get good profit from a car that will get over 200 mpg, but it should not be over $15,000 US for a small economy model. this would boost sales hugely, making the 235 mpg VW irresistible to most car buyers in the USA, and make it possible for progressive manufacturers to be competitive against criminally wasteful gas guzzlers, quickly replace the existing wasteful US car fleet, and put most of the cars into recycled scrap, unless they are safely adapted to get over 100 mpg with HHO hydrogen fuel boost technology. i would like any car getting over 100 mpg, or using no gasoline at all, but it has to be very durable suspension/frame preferably mostly carbon fiber composites and other materials that do not rust.

unfortunately, most car manufacturers seem to think they are forced to either conform to the unwritten 1920 25 mpg rule of Henry Ford, or must be able to top 250 miles per hour, accelerate 0 to 60 mph in 5 seconds with car stereo TV and internet GPS and wet bar blaring with 15 drunk people dancing on the tables inside the car.

very few sane people need such fast supercars. not sure why it is even legal to sell cars that are able to go so far over the top speed limit in the country they are being sold, or, for emergencies and passing speed flexibility, perhaps 100 mph max.

it seems we get these amazing concept cars that cannot yet be purchased, available in perhaps 5 years (by then they will be pathetically outmoded, replaced by yet the next most amazing supercars, themselves also unavailable for another 5 years, etc.); or we are told by car manufacturers that it will be at least 10 years before we can increase the fleet mpg average by another 5 mpg.

this is absurd in the extreme. we need practical cars, now, available to buy, in car showrooms for actual purchase, at affordable prices, and not all increasing to luxury status with every single gadget draining power and reducing mpg!

is this so hard to grasp? this is largely why Henry Ford invented the assembly line, to make the latest tech available to the masses at reasonable cost, and get a healthy, fair and reasonable profit for the manufacturer… not, as it seems to be now, to make company profit margin grow superexponentially over that of the previous 3 months, and better– otherwise, all investor confidence disappears, the greedy cowards bail out and let the company fail completely down to fifty cents a share, then all shareholders are dumped and the workers fired and abandoned.

it is fair to get good profit from a car that will get over 200 mpg, but it should not be over $15,000 US for a small economy model. this would boost sales hugely, making the 235 mpg VW irresistible to most car buyers in the USA, and make it possible for progressive manufacturers to be competitive against criminally wasteful gas guzzlers, quickly replace the existing wasteful US car fleet, and put most of the cars into recycled scrap, unless they are safely adapted to get over 100 mpg with HHO hydrogen fuel boost technology.

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