Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "mike wilson" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PESO - The Company Car
On 08/12/2011 08:16, Larry Colen wrote:
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a market for fun to drive cars
that get 40MPG, so it would never get built.
http://www.ford.com/cars/fiesta/ as one of the many choices available
here.
The diesel, although bigger than 1300cc and heavier, gets 60-80mpg(imp)
but the only market for cars like this is outside the USA. Part of this
will be due to the enhanced safety designing causing the door apertures to
be made smaller and therefore making it difficult for larger people to
enter.
The cost to get existing diesels to meet current U. S. emission rules is
extremely cost prohibitive.
I attended a Ford meeting where the additional cost to get a recent, in
production, Ford diesel to meet those rules cost somewhere around $2000 USD
IIRC, - this was for the hardware in the exhaust system, from the engine
outlet ports to the tip of the tailpipe and the requisite components in that
system.
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