On 5/11/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you look at the new cars that are coming out it's size (Cadillac [...]
Hybrids are also "new cars that are coming out". I think you're being very selective in the evidence you choose to present to back your opinion.. > The last time someone tried a super efficient car it bombed. The > mid-ninties Geo Metro got near 70 MPG when driven right. [...] Some of the Hybrids are an attempt at a super efficient car, and there are waiting lines for it. I think that the real facts to look at here are that any super effecient car built in mass production is a relatively new thing. Hybrids are a relatively new technology. For that matter, super efficient cars, even the Geo Metro are relatively new and have a shit-ton of room to improve. And I'm not sure your claim that the Geo Metro "bombed" because no-one wanted a super effecient gas car is valid. I think it bombed because it was a little tiny junk looking car. Many people also think that about some of the new small electric and Hybrid cars, but that's why they are putting these engines in bigger cars, and it's working... Americans do have an appetite for powerful cars, and I don't think the auto industry is going to ignore that anytime soon. I'd be very suprised to see SUV sales impacted much even if the price of gas goes up to $5.00 a gallon. Individuals don't always make rational decisions. However, there is a very strong and rapidly growing market for Fuel effecient cars. Whether those are Hybrids, or simply very efficient gas cars, the market is there, and I'd say is growing (or will soon be growing) at the same rate the SUV market did in the 90s. I think calling any attempts for automakers to get into this market a Very Smart Thing, and there's tons of room for them to get better at it, but the market has to be built up first, and the auto industry has to built up their know-how as well. Calling Hybrids a "Red Herring" assumes that Hybrid technology doesn't work and will never work. That automakers are just trying to fake us out and trick us into buying this bullshit car that doesn't live up to it's expectations. It implies that the technology is lacking at it's foundation and is junk science. I simply don't think that's the case. It's just new, very new. -Cameron --- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157130 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
