Compare weights of current cars to older cars. You will be surprised that the newer cars are heavier for the same size.
It's all that extra crap people want on them now. The car itself has to be lighter so you can pile on all the extra cup holders huge consoles, power motors for stuff that doesn't need power etc. Allot of that plastic body stuff is heavier than the steel equivelant too.
I'm glad the EPA has finally decided to get closer to a real way of measuring fuel mileage. I never understood how they thought that they could tell the fuel mileage of a car by only reading the exhaust gasses. |