Comments on: Friday Free-For-All http://onlycritter.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/friday-free-for-all-5/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:36:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: El Capitan Davis http://onlycritter.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/friday-free-for-all-5/#comment-164 El Capitan Davis Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:20:38 +0000 http://onlycritter.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-164 Liars!!! All of them! SUV's aren't dead, they were built in the first place to answer to a void in the market and while that market has declined, it will never go completely away. Fact is that no car will ever be able to tow 8,000 lbs. While you think soccer moms drive them during the week, their real use was found on weekends and vacations. Let me say it now, having owned a couple SUVs and now a full size truck, no matter how high gas gets I will continue to buy that class of vehicle because smaller doesn't fit my need. I'll work from home 100% before I ever do a car again and the same is true for Danielle. As for GM and the EV-1. They did throw their full weight on R&D of the car. It was the very first production electric car. I was given the opportunity to drive one and it was a hell of a lot of fun to drive. 0-60mph in 6.5 seconds. The reason they killed it was that it wasn't practical. It could only go 60 miles before it flat out died and had to be recharged and at a cost per vehicle of $38,500 it wasn't sellable. Pretty hard to compete when you're in the range of a Cadillac that can perform the same and run 385 miles on a tank of gas. They did however vow to bring the technology back when it was proven feasible and now the Chevy Volt is just that along with the Tahoe, Yukon, and Silverado hybrids. GM should be given some credit for going after their biggest fleet with hybrid technology. Toyota didn't really accomplish alot with the Prius. Truth is, the Corolla gets similar real mileage as the Prius and the Prius is significantly more costly, for what? So, when it comes to which company is taking the harder stance, I say GM by proving that they have the ability to reduce the consumption on real work horses. Liars!!! All of them! SUV’s aren’t dead, they were built in the first place to answer to a void in the market and while that market has declined, it will never go completely away. Fact is that no car will ever be able to tow 8,000 lbs. While you think soccer moms drive them during the week, their real use was found on weekends and vacations. Let me say it now, having owned a couple SUVs and now a full size truck, no matter how high gas gets I will continue to buy that class of vehicle because smaller doesn’t fit my need. I’ll work from home 100% before I ever do a car again and the same is true for Danielle.

As for GM and the EV-1. They did throw their full weight on R&D of the car. It was the very first production electric car. I was given the opportunity to drive one and it was a hell of a lot of fun to drive. 0-60mph in 6.5 seconds. The reason they killed it was that it wasn’t practical. It could only go 60 miles before it flat out died and had to be recharged and at a cost per vehicle of $38,500 it wasn’t sellable. Pretty hard to compete when you’re in the range of a Cadillac that can perform the same and run 385 miles on a tank of gas. They did however vow to bring the technology back when it was proven feasible and now the Chevy Volt is just that along with the Tahoe, Yukon, and Silverado hybrids. GM should be given some credit for going after their biggest fleet with hybrid technology. Toyota didn’t really accomplish alot with the Prius. Truth is, the Corolla gets similar real mileage as the Prius and the Prius is significantly more costly, for what? So, when it comes to which company is taking the harder stance, I say GM by proving that they have the ability to reduce the consumption on real work horses.

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