Reply #2: What took them so long? [View All]

[blues90]

I have no sympathy what so ever for the auto manufacturers . They have had many years to come up with more efficient cars and trucks yet they stayed with the big oil . In the early 70's when the gas rationing came about both ford and GM were on the bandwagon to make smaller more efficient cars and what happened in the mid 80's . both came back with bigger units and V8 engines and were told they had to sell a certain amount of efficient cars compared to the gass hogs . then they started to make huge SUV's and marketed them as family friendly with complete disreguard to fuel consumption and the public jumped on the bandwagon .

What they did was make things worse with their greed and marketing ploys and the fake city and highway ratings . Even single drivers instead of a car bought some huge pickup truck just to go to work and back never intending to use these for a work truck .

We could have been so much further ahead now if we were aware and smart .