ElioDigger
Elio Addict
Better mpg means less cash I spend no mater what the fuel cost. my car is to get me places by myself. the family wagon is just that....a people mover.
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Elio And Gas Prices
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dgruis
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CNN Money - Jan. 6, 2015 - Lower gasoline prices have helped SUVs take over a bigger chunk of the auto market...
http://www.clickondetroit.com/consumer/suvs-are-kings-of-the-road-once-again/30555924
Readers digest summary - "Some complain about high gas prices, as they complain about small cars which they call gnats. Some are only happy if they have something to bitch about, and they continue bitching about random crap as they drive to pickup their new gas-guzzling SUV."
http://www.clickondetroit.com/consumer/suvs-are-kings-of-the-road-once-again/30555924
Readers digest summary - "Some complain about high gas prices, as they complain about small cars which they call gnats. Some are only happy if they have something to bitch about, and they continue bitching about random crap as they drive to pickup their new gas-guzzling SUV."
Frankly, around here the best part of the road runs down the middle anyway.
I hate driving in South Carolina, there are tens of miles with original Eisenhower interstate concrete and it has deformed over time and so you rythmically bounce from one end of the shocks to the other as you cross each concrete panel.
NSTG8R
Elio Addict
Try driving across Kansas some time. Same deal. Expansion joints about every 40'....for 500 miles.
Back in around '81, we were going from San Diego to Denver. I-70 actually (at that time) began/ended somewhere out in the middle of Utah. Long straight downhill run with the concrete slab sections kind of bowed in the middle. You'd get up to around 60mph and start catching air, and throwing sparks when you came back down. Brain (and car) didn't need that kind of crap after being on the road for 15+ hours.
CompTrex
Elio Addict
Brutal.Try driving across Kansas some time. Same deal. Expansion joints about every 40'....for 500 miles.
Back in around '81, we were going from San Diego to Denver. I-70 actually (at that time) began/ended somewhere out in the middle of Utah. Long straight downhill run with the concrete slab sections kind of bowed in the middle. You'd get up to around 60mph and start catching air, and throwing sparks when you came back down. Brain (and car) didn't need that kind of crap after being on the road for 15+ hours.
NSTG8R
Elio Addict
Compact and subcompact SUVs.......gas guzzling? I think more affordable, smaller, higher mpg SUVs have helped to increase the SUV car market share.
By the very nature of marketing, yes true.
One reason people are ever going more that way, just because all the cars are taller, esp the SUV's, so everyone wants to sit higher, so that you can see again. It's a mater of nerves versus survival. A form of product design parameter creep.
I'm looking at some of those cars that were considered BIG cars in the 60's and 70's. Just barely midsized by today's standards. Only thing that has gotten smaller are those big square fenders, gross weight, and the cylinder displacement.
Getting a Elio into the diamond lane will ease that 'stuck in a trench' feeling.