“Automakers win one on fuel economy”
In a victory for Detroit automakers, the main backer in the U.S. House of tougher fuel economy standards said late today that he would not push for his 35 mile-per-gallon standard this week.
You know, in 1979, Volkswagen was making a car that got between 25 and 30 miles per gallon?
The Volkswagen Rabbit GTI, the North American version of the high-performance Golf GTI, debuted in Canada in 1979 and in the United States for 1983 model year. […] Claims for gas mileage of near-perfectly tuned Rabbit GTIs range between 25 and 30 miles per gallon.
Why has progress been so slow: we’re mandating what was possible three decades ago!
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