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Originally Posted by desal75
I've had people tell me they get over 40 miles a gallon in Aveo's.
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And I've had people tell me their Civic does 6 second quarter miles. People lie. What's your point?
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As for the Tacoma and Silverado debate. The Tacoma should get better gas mileage, it is a mid size truck while the Silverado is a full size. Yet, the Silverado still gets better gas mileage out of its 5.3L V8 than the V6 in the Tacoma.
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Well, as I mentioned above, when comparing large truck to large truck, the Tundra gets the same gas mileage while having nearly 100hp more than the Chevy.
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My point about the SUV's was that the entire auto industry went whole hog into large SUV's because thats what the market wanted. It wasn't just the American brands but some Japanese and European ones as well.
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True, but the other brands were smart enough to keep pushing and developing their cars as well. For awhile there you barely saw any advertising for American vehicles other than trucks and SUV's.
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In short it was one mistake the entire industry made, not just Detroit.
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OK, that doesn't mean the American auto industry didn't screw up. The Nixon defense (well he did it TOOO!) won't save Chrysler.
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The A3 and TT may be very different looking and driving cars but you can't tell me the A3 and Rabbit have much in common than front clips and interior trim.
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I'm not trying to tell you that. And again, just because VW (which if you hadn't noticed doesn't have the greatest reputation right now either) does something stupid doesn't mean it's OK for Chrysler to do it.