Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy
Those cars from 1913 also used leaded gas which is FAR more efficient than unleaded. That car from 91 would also not get 40mpg today, as back in 91 when you bought 10 gallons of gas you got 10 gallons of gas. Today you buy 10 gallons of gas you get about 7 gallons of gas, a gallon of ethanol, and 2 gallons of additives.


As for GM, they had no right to step in. GM would actually benefit HUGELY from bankruptcy as they could finally dump the parasitic union contracts and actually start worring about making cars again. As I have said before, simply dropping the retirment from 95 to 80% would give GM ~50B in additional cash on a yearly basis. That would more than make up for any losses they are seeing now.
i hate ethonol, ever since they introduced it my SI has got less mpg than before, used to get 350 miles to a tank, now 300 if im lucky. the point is there have been cars that still get better mpg than new cars, my hatch in my sig gets close to 40mpg, and my 10yr old si gets 31mpg and a new si gets 29hwy mpg. ethanol sux ass and needs to go, it robs power and fuel economy b/c some corporate asshole said it was good. i and many other people noticed the change after it was required in gas. yes the cars are heavier now than 10yrs ago. we need to find a good weight comaprison for that one.