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Originally Posted by BrianL99
I owned a 1970 Pontiac GTO. About 300 horsepower and it got about 15 mpg on the highway. My 10 year old, 365 HP Jaguar, gets 30 mpg on the highway and my 335 horsepower BMW gets 34 mpg on the highway.
If we put the same resources into ICE as we do EV's, we'd have cars that get 100 mpg, with emissions below detectible range.
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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox
So why haven't the manufacturers done that? Surely if one came up with a car that did 100mpg it would vastly outsell those doing 35mpg?
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Since the Big Three haven't managed to do it in the 125 years that they (and their predecessors) have been building cars in the USA then I suggest that they stand back and let The Villages Woodworking Club tackle the problem.
Currently the average MPG for a car in the USA is 25 so they only have to quadruple that and BrianL99 will be proved right.