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Originally Posted by Stew
Alot of people could have used the last gen Caprice  Large, roomy, available towing package with 5000 pound rating, mine with the towing packaged averaged mid 20s in the MPG. With the LSD it even did decent offroad, like a 2WD truck capabilities (gotta love a BOF car!)
Seems like their sales were still pretty good when GM killed them all (Caprice, impala SS, ROadmaster, and Fleetwood) o make more trucks :( |
Exactly. They couldn't keep building a high volume large car that only got mid-20s. It dinged their CAFE average too much if they made too many of them. Building truck based SUVs had no such CAFE penalty. There was no CAFE sales ceiling they needed to manage.