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To: Road Walker who wrote (434581)	11/12/2008 1:56:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574054

They are if that's what the consumer is buying. Until recently the consumer was buying bigger and more powerful cars, with MPG typically only being a secondary consideration. Also the "big three" didn't have much worse mileage than their foreign competition. Japanese cars used to be small high mileage cars, but now not so much. 2007 model year statistics Domestic passenger cars General Motors: 29.9 mpg Toyota: 31.6 mpg latimesblogs.latimes.com 1.7 extra MPG is not why Toyota has Market Cap (intraday)5: 99.15B Net Income Avl to Common (ttm): 12.96B finance.yahoo.com while GM has Market Cap (intraday)5: 1.93B Net Income Avl to Common (ttm): -22.79B finance.yahoo.com