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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
No individual or company is being forced to manufacture anything. You make this sound like a slave state, which it is not. But, companies that have their eyes on the future will certainly upgrade, improve, and add to their list of offerings, as well as eliminating older, less efficient products and technology.
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Due to new milage regulations in CAFE standards.
The same type of thing that spawned the growth of the SUVs and Minivans...
They are not considered "cars", so they didn't count towards the MPG requirements set by the Feds...
The car companies produced thousands of "economy cars" that no one wanted. But they had to be produced to counter the higher MPG cars that were actually being sold...