60 mpg Chevrolet

[windstuffnow]

  Chevy has a group of new models out this year, me being a chevy fan most of my life, and gave 30 years of my life in experimental as well as a service tech... I saw an ad on USA for their new models...  Talk about disappointed !!  But for all us gas mileage misers... guess what  GM is building a new model that gets super gas mileage!  It has a 3cyl 800cc engine and tops out at around 120 mph.  60 mpg on the highway! Oh... I should mention... You CAN'T buy them in the US.

  Have you ever tried to find out about different auto models of other countries?  It's like some kind of military secret...

Anyway do a search for Chevrolet Spark.

No more S-10's  the Colorado is replacing it, just another gas guzzler...  Anything to keep us below 30mpg...  I guess my Chevy days are over...

My Rant for the week

Windstuff Ed

[monte350c]

Yup!

It's true - they often hold back the best for other markets. Check this one out - it's from where I used to work. I had this thing doing 155 mph at least once a week, not really even breathing hard.

V8, rear wheel drive, all independant suspension - puts a lot of high performance offshore stuff to shame.

http://www.gmarabia.com/content_data/LAAM/SA/en/GBPSA/chevrolet/models/lumina/lumina_coupe.htm

Oh well one can always hope!

Ted.

[zmoz]

Yeah, 60mpg would be nice, but I certainly wouldn't be caught dead driving anything that looks like this. Why not just get an old honda and strap in a Briggs V twin?

[RobD]

60 mpg, it looks good to me!
RobD

[Norm]

  60 mpg don't look so good when a blonde in a red Pontiac Firebird passes 2 other cars in a no passing zone, hits your corner bumper,as you're making a left turn(turn signals on and clearly visible)....spins you, your wife and the '70 olds that you are driving 180 degrees. (slewed the back bumper over about 2 inches hardly a scratch on the chrome(good chrome back then) demolished the whole front end of her car) it was determined by the skid marks that she was doing about 70 in a 35 mph no passing zone (but thank goodness she was wearing her seat belt(her words))She had been in an accident a month prior and had just got it back from the shop...worried about her insurance premiums...cops came  she wasn't cited.


 The Olds only got about 18mpg and gas cost about 75 cents a gallon back then. ....but we're still here. I don't know if we had been driving a 60mpg car like the above??? I think the better gas milage you get the more the gas is going to cost...they have to get x amount of dollars from us.....Norm.

[wildbill hickup]

Cops didn't need to give her a ticket, they should have torn up her licence and told her to by a horse!!!!!!

[kww]

That's nothing, I've got a Mazda Rx-7 that needs no fuel at all, only a hill. :-)
Kevin

[RobC]

I think the geo metro that is avalible here gets 50 to 60 mpg.

Most people who have them really like them.RobC

[wind pirate]

If I have to be in an car as unsafe as that one looks to get 60 mpg, I'll just ride a Harley.

WP

[zmoz]

Yeah, I had an accident recently and if I had been in a car like that I'd probably still be in the hospital, or dead. I completely smashed the front end of my jeep, but I wasn't hurt, just a little sore.

[RobD]

It's not necessarily size that protects the driver. The Germans came up with crumple zones for a reason. They found that what damages the human body is G forces and the more you can reduce those forces by gradual body collapsing the better the individual's chances of survival are. Larger vehicles are no safer than small vehicles built safely. Small cars have better maneuverability and can avoid accidents better and the distance you travel upon impact in the cab of larger cars is greater also. This combined with the forward inertia of heavier vehicles(F=ma) and their tendency to flip over from the higher center of gravity make them less safe in many accident conditions.
Take a look at the safest cars and also look at the formula one racers that drivers walk away from after high speed accidents. The damage to the vehicle doesn't necessarily equate to the damage to the driver.
The safest thing you can do is drive slower regardless of the car you are driving. Speed  equals higher impact.
RobD

[windstuffnow]

  Great point RobD,  I thought I was the only one who thought this way.  I don't believe we need 300 hp hauling a 5000 lb auto to go to the store.  Manufacture's seem to dictate what they want us to buy and drive.  I can remember when most cars and trucks were quite distinctive, Now they all pretty much look the same.  Nisson seems to be quite daring with the inovative body styles the've come out with.. cool but costly.

  I guess, to get what I really want, I'll have to build it myself....

Ed

[bambamn]

This would be the ultimate SUV. Its a hybrid using a 4cyl diesel. Im trying to do the same thing using a F150.

http://evworld.com/archives/conferences/evs14/humvee.html

[Wolvenar]

In Minnesota you probably WOULD be caught DEAD....

after hitting a deer

[Wolvenar]

I dunno about how that will handle

a nice icy road with 3 foot drifts.

I have found it's best to have a heavier

vehicle in this stuff

BUT decent mileage is possible in heavier cars too

[hiker]

my 1948 vw bug still rocks on--fly right by the gas stations--36hp.