Ford selling 65 MPG car…but only in Europe
Clark Howard was talking on his show the other day and had that Business Week recently reported on the Ford ECOnetic, a vehicle that gets 65 mpg, runs on diesel and is available in Europe only. The reason why Ford isn’t selling the car in the U.S. is because they can’t figure out how to manufacture the ECOnetic over here without losing money on each car! That’s because these idiot motor companies wanted us to buy the big gas guzzling SUV’s and now all of a sudden because of gas prices being high Americans want to buy smaller economical cars.
By 2010, we’ll have the GM Volt and other fuel-efficient cars. In the next few months, Honda will have an affordable hybrid available with a price tag in the upper teens.
It’s gonna take a while to make a long-term change. We will get there as long as we don’t lose focus when gas becomes cheaper.
What is funny about all this too is that the auto manufacturers made all these big and powerful cars and suv’s which they are stuck with and now they are crying that they need $25 billion in taxpayer money! BOO HOO!
Read the full story on the Ford ECOnetic.
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September 27th, 2008 at 10:48 am
The coward slithers out from his hole…