Originally Posted by onehundred80
When gas prices go up we see that SUV's and large cars plummet in sales and the used car lots are full of them. When the gas price drops large car sales go up again, but less each time. It's a vicious circle, but a lot of North Americans love their big cars.
The V8 has largely been dropped from the new cars, we loved V8's. So we have settled for large V6's, we love HP and 250HP + V6's is what we have to settle for in the family car.
There are more and more small cars on the road though but some of us will not buy these, bigger is better and to hell with the price of gas.
By my reckoning my na Crossfire is a gas miser at 30 mpg+ on the highway, the Chrysler 300 .... not so much.
I encourage people to buy small cars, that means there's more gas for us.
Small cars don't carry large groups of people.
Small cars don't pull boats, campers, or a work trailer
In fact, small cars are only good for commuting one or two @sses to work daily, and for that they are fine.
But, if you need to do the other things, a bigger vehicle is a requirement and having the "Extra" or "small" one a "
luxury."
A minivan or and SUV can carry 6 or 7 people at 15 MPG. Beats the efficiency of your roadster's 2 butts at 30 MPG by 43%
That's 105 butt miles per gallon to 60.