very simple...wouldn't sell enough to be profitable. They did away with the camaro and trans am because the suv's were more profitable and they needed the rear wheel assembly plants to make those. All about $. My 78'chevro;et cheyenne with the 307 smogger I own still gets 22 mpg. Not bad for a 30 year old truck with 195000 miles and going strong. The little Escort I just picked up gets 33 all around mpg, nothing special about it and if they put their diesel in it it would get an easy 50 mpg. The key here is that people love their suv's and don't care about the mpg's or the $ they spend. That is why the little jap and Korean cars are getting heftier and have worse mileage than they did when they entered the American market. It's us the consumer, they are just providing the buying public with what it is they want. Don't blame the oil companies.........but that is a whole nother conversation!!! Is "nother" real word? Anyway I've always thought that a Sterling engine run on a small flame turning 1000 rpms or so hooked to an alternator and bumped up to run 4 ac motors at each wheel would yield a car that would run at hundreds of miles per gallan. Only I don't know anything about electricity and how to bump it up. The Sterling engine is a fascinating little engine, I still think my idea is sound but there a re alot of great minds and it hasn't been applied so their must be something wrong with my idea. Any thoughts Milton, Fred?............Steven
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