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To: TH who wrote (36916)	9/12/2005 12:28:57 AM
From: benwood	Respond to of 116555

I posted that link to the CU article elsewhere, btw. I happened to be reading a Car & Driver magazine in the lobby of my local muffler shop on Saturday, and one of the editors wrote a piece criticizing the auto industry's penchant for making cars heavier. The thinking is that that American consumers like heavier cars in that they like how they handle so firmly. However, he points out that in a parallel universe, motorcycles have gotten both stronger and lighter at the same time. He had an estimate (his or somebody else's) that today's cars could be 400-500 pounds lighter. That would certainly help gas mileage. BTW, nobody "cheats" on the EPA tests -- the tests themselves are faulty. Read the CU article for more information. But the false numbers are in keeping with faking the mileage number mandates and so forth. Methinks that they've played the horsepower and megacar game for too long and they (GM, Ford) will be crushed in the next few years. On the other hand, Car and Driver really liked that new Ford Fusion. However, just 20-23 city and 26-29 hwy. My '94 Taurus wagon got 21 city and 29 hwy. And my numbers were real.