I thought it was hilarious enough; it's a Chevy Cobalt that gets the mileage of the much larger (and nicer) Chevy Impala with a Cadillac price tag, and it's "environmentally friendly" plug in hybrid system effectively runs the first 40 miles on coal--that's what the power company runs during the night when demand is low.
No, it's even more hilarious. Evidently, to get that mighty 30mpg (not much better than my minivan on a 90 degree day) with that compact four seater (not even as good as a Cobalt in space or mileage), you need to use premium gasoline. Cadillac price, Cobalt size, and....OK, let's be fair to the Impala. It doesn't get the mileage of the Impala, but rather of a 2000 Venture with 210,000 miles on it, but without the room, comfort, or towing capacity of the minivan. All while running on sulfur-and-soot-emitting bituminous coal from West Virginia and Wyoming.
If there is any better picture of why government needs to get as far as possible from designing our cars, it's the Chevy Volt, which can only get sales with a $7500 government tax credit for buying the stupid thing.
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What *I* wanna know is how you're getting 30mpg w/AC on a 10 yr. old American built minivan. I'd love to see my 2003 T&C with 95,000 on it get that!
Dunno what I'm doing, but the last four GM vehicles I've had seem to have had a love for hot weather and did extremely well at 90F or more. Three of the four had a "sweet spot" for mileage at about 55-60mph too...the fourth (a 1994 Olds Cutlass Supreme) once got 31mpg going mostly about 70-75mph.
Take the vehicle out of the heat & speed sweet spot, and you'd lose a lot of that mileage, but there certainly was something going on at 90F and 55mph.
And as you note, it's been the envy at times of Chrysler owners.....sorry!
You should post this one on GOM, its great.
What ever happened to the diesel VW Rabbit 20 some years ago that got 45 mpg?
K-Rod; crash tests. Same thing that happened to the 57mpg Honda Civix CRX and the 50mpg Geo Metro.
I suppose. Good reason not to run crash tests on motorcycles.
What a huge bucket of fail.
You got it, Doug. Sadly, it also appears that this is a place where certain GM personnel are getting an, um, "affirmative action publicity stunt" that will lade down the company with engineers and managers who weren't honest enough to say "why are we making a coal fired car and calling it an environmental benefit?"
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