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Originally Posted by diarmadhi
Guess you have no clue about safety regs as well as crash standards and such. Do you think that if DCX could have reduced the weight and in turn given everyone a better fuel economy they wouldnt have? Dude get rational, If the chally/charger/300 was 3200lbs and got upper 20's low 30's MPG they would sell faster than almost any car on the market, and EVERYONE knows that. SO its not possible with todays regulations, you need that "weight" for airbags, crumple zones, side impact bracing, ECT, ECT.
The major problem i have with this is that the Government wants to be all happy happy about safety, more safety and yet even more safety becuase you can never have too much, thus adding to the weight of cars. And then turns around and says weight/physics be damned you will increase MPG's.
THEN THE TREEHUGGERS come in and say, well gas MPG hasn't improved since 1990. and tosses up a graph to prove it.. and on the surface its true.. BUT IT HAS, we have just added weight until each improvement cancels each other out..
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Well, actually, I work in the Insurance industry and have been to here:
http://www.iihs.org/ and watched them crash a car as well as watched dummy`s on a large slingshot machine to test whiplash ect... So I do actually know a thing or 2 about safety regs. You are just taking the industry exscuse that everybody regurgatates. There of course is some validity to your point of more weight due to safety regs, the main problem however is they think we all want these huge cars packed full of so many options that the queen mary pales by comparisson. That is the biggest issue. For instance why does the Solstice weigh 2860 but the Mazda Miata weighs 2445? Thats 400lbs...They both are supposedly small 2 door convert sports cars w/ 4cl engines.
The Camaro did not need to be the size it is. They should have developed Zeta to be smaller or perhaps put camaro on a different platform.. Oh well they didn`t and we have a big Camaro, which," keep your fingers crossed" hopefully won`t be over 3700lbs.
There are many small cars that do very well in the crash tests and are not heavy. My Vette is 3152lbs the solstce GXP 4cl turbo is 2976lbs. The Vette is a lot more car w/ a steel Full Frame. They can build them light when they want too. You see Vette people would not put up w/ a porker of a Vette. GM knows it and its light for what it is. The 350z which is about the same size is about 300lbs heavier.
I`m w/ ya on the treehuggers, they piss me off too!
This is my favorite shirt:
http://www.kockyproducts.com/ go to gm products and it is the 2nd shirt about hybrid cars....
