Re: New Plug-in Electric Car Company



Kris Krieger wrote:

Dirk Bruere wrote
T wrote:

Sure the price will drop as they automate the assembly of the vehicle.
That's what gets me about regular car prices, alot of the car is put
together by machines these days. Yet the prices don't seem to come down
much.

That's because so many extras are added on to keep the price, and
profits, high. I've occasionally wondered what my old Capri 2.0L would
cost these days. No central locking, no power steering, no powered
windows, no aircon, no super surround sound hifi, simple engine, 37mpg
etc.

That's why they stopped making the Saturn SL1. Larger profit margins on
SUVs.

OK, my 2002 does have air conditioning and power steering ;)

What amamzes me is that the Infinity I35 (whcih they also stopped making) is
a fairly large car, very nice interior, comfortable, has more than enough
"zip", and gets about 26MPG mixed city-highway. Meanwhile the much smaller,
cramped, delayed-accelerating, poorly-handling, hard-riding G35 that I had as
a loaner didn't even reach 20MPG. I was looking at new cars becasue I'd
thought that, Surely there are now ones that get better MPHG than my SL1, but
amazingly, even the teensy cars weren't any better (I get about 30MPH mixed,
and teh tiny ones max at about 35 mpg *highway*, but there is no way of
telling what the Mixed mpg works out to be).

So I'm not getting rid of my SL1 any time soon...

But American 'cars' are weird anyway. Who really needs a Dodge Ram except to
compensate for a small willy ?

Graham


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