Honda / Nissan dropped diesels..

[ghostntheshell]

No 65mpg full sized accord for the US market.

It's been dropped. Very silently I might add too.

A lot of bull shit about not meeting emissions and what not.




Another thing? The new Honda Insight - the HYBRID - gets worse MPG than my old Tercel.

Is it me - or does something smell realllllly bad here.

Looks like big oil wins again.
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[kaboom]

No 65mpg full sized accord for the US market.

It's been dropped. Very silently I might add too.

A lot of bull shit about not meeting emissions and what not.




Another thing? The new Honda Insight - the HYBRID - gets worse MPG than my old Tercel.

Is it me - or does something smell realllllly bad here.

Looks like big oil wins again.

The 3 cylinder Geo Metro from the 90's got better gas mileage than the hybrids they are putting out today......:confused2:

 

[ghostntheshell]

I get 640km out of 37 Liters.

The Insight gets 640kms from 45 liters.


My tercel uses a 1.5L engine barely pumping out 100 horsepower.

The Insight? A 1.3L engine barely pumping out 98 horsepower.


It just doesn't make sense.





Honda also used to sell a honda civic VX model that "hyper miliers" pay top dollar for because it got 50+ mpg.





Something is rotten
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[Shuriken]

My 84 1.5l carbureted CRX still gets 40+ mpg with over 295k miles on the clock.

 

[ghostntheshell]

I only hear they were dropping the diesel from a friend.

They are going to "focus on hybrids" - - - gimmie a break.

*hopefully* GM can pull a rabbit out of a hat with the volt - but rest assured im not holding my breath...
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[Redbone]

My 84 1.5l carbureted CRX still gets 40+ mpg with over 295k miles on the clock.

I had a '85 Honda Accord hatchback that got over 32+ mpg on the highway. I used to drive from Flint, Mi. to Atlanta, Ga. (~750 miles)on 1.5 fillups (16 gallon tank). Great car I wish I had it as a second car now. I need my full size GMC 4x4 for snow travel, hunting and hauling stuff but the 16 mpg sux big time.

 

[ghostntheshell]

It's clear that companies aren't "struggling" to offer better MPG vehicles.

They simply choose not.



It's all part of the bigger picture of keeping us hooked on oil.
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[ghostntheshell]

Doing the conversion of my Tercel

I get 50 mpg. FIFTY
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[naughtyG]

The thing that REALLY pisses me off, is how you get charged more $ for a gallon of diesel than for a gallon of gas, when refining crude oil into gas takes WAY more resources (and $) than going to diesel..

And in Europe, they sell way more diesel cars than gas cars, because you generally get almost twice the mpg out of a diesel engine, and these days turbodiesel motors outperform gas ones in just about every way!

 

[kaboom]

the 1978 Chevette I had got better mileage than some small cars today.....

I thought it was a pretty good car too:confused2: