American Cars Vs Everyone Else's Cars

[Reliant121]

That is disgusting. No wonder American cars dont fair well here.

[Kevsha]

That is disgusting. No wonder American cars dont fair well here.

WHAT!? thats one of the most beautiful cars ever produced

That's what? An 80's Monte Carlo?

Close, its a Buick Grand National. a very rare car produced from 1984-87 in the form you se there. They are a turbo 3.8 V-6

maybe you will like this one better?

[Lighthawk]

It looks like a black brick with wheels honestly

[Reliant121]

Big, Pointlessly huge engine, Awkward angular styling...just not doing anything for me. Most old American cars are like it. I like big Cadillac saloons, but that really does nothing for me.

[Reliant121]

This is a random point but I cannot believe this. I just looked at the Honda Insight, an American Hybrid, right? it has a 1.3 hybrid engine which is unbelievably small for you yanks. And it gets 43 hwy mpg. Thats appauling! Our STANDARD petrol 1.3 litre cars can go up to 55 odd mpg for a motorway journey. What are you doing to your goddamn cars?

[Sionnach Glic]

Now, I'm not a car owner myself, but damn that last US car looks ugly as hell.

It's no wonder your car industry is going downhil so fast. No one abroad wants to buy one!

[Lighthawk]

This is a random point but I cannot believe this. I just looked at the Honda Insight, an American Hybrid, right? it has a 1.3 hybrid engine which is unbelievably small for you yanks. And it gets 43 hwy mpg. Thats appauling! Our STANDARD petrol 1.3 litre cars can go up to 55 odd mpg for a motorway journey. What are you doing to your goddamn cars?

Generally flaunting out vast resources and wealth to our disadvatage now that it's catching up to us. Most cars here get far less, usually around the 20-30 mpg range. Our car industry has always been about big, loud, and powerful cars. Effiecency? Brand new concept for us.

[Kevsha]

Big, Pointlessly huge engine, Awkward angular styling...just not doing anything for me. Most old American cars are like it. I like big Cadillac saloons, but that really does nothing for me.

pointlessly huge? awkward styling? its a 3.8 V-6???? tiny tiny motor (for the size of the car). the styling was that of the times, thats how cars looked here in the 70's- 80's and early 90's not much i can argue there, if you don't like it, you don't like it. this car was actually a readical departure from the norm, it was built of f the montecarlo chassi which in its SS version used a big ol V-8 (a 5.7 i think?) this was a small V-6 following suit came ford with the Thunderbird Turbocoupe that came with a turbo 4cyl, one of which i owned at one point.

[Reliant121]

Thats not tiny for us. A car of that size would probably have a 2.0 engine at the most over here.

[Tsukiyumi]

I think we've been over this before, but the main reason we have big engines in our cars is because we'd like to get where we're going before we die of old age. Houston is 212 sq miles (339 km², IIRC), and that's just the city. That doesn't count surrounding stuff like Sugar Land (where I live now).

Driving from where I am to where Uzume lives at the moment is a 132 mile (211 km) round trip. Drive that far in Europe, and you'd be in a different country.

[Kevsha]

This is a random point but I cannot believe this. I just looked at the Honda Insight, an American Hybrid, right? it has a 1.3 hybrid engine which is unbelievably small for you yanks. And it gets 43 hwy mpg. Thats appauling! Our STANDARD petrol 1.3 litre cars can go up to 55 odd mpg for a motorway journey. What are you doing to your goddamn cars?

Well the insight is a honda, which is a japanese company... an AMERICAN hybrid, the 2010 ford fusion is a BIGGER car than the insight and doesn't have that cookie cutter hybrid shape gets 41 mpg out od i believe a 2.0L. but what people do not under standm and what hybrid makers are capitalizing on is that hybrids are HEAVY!!!!! they are not good for small cars! they work best in mid/fillsize cars. little cars have an advantage, they are very small and light.... add a hubrid drive and a batter that weighs a couple hundred pounds and now you are LESS efficient than a standard car! if you want get milage you buy a diesel but thanks to california our diesel emissions are so goddamn strict in this country that euro and american car makers can't take thier diesels from europe to here

[Reliant121]

Why do you need such an engine if you're limited to 55 miles per hour?

And we can get 41 mpg out of a 2.0l standard petrol, in most cases.

[Lighthawk]

Why do you need such an engine if you're limited to 55 miles per hour?

Sorry, you'd have to live here to get why that's funny I think

[Sionnach Glic]

That's a very good point, Reliant. We have the same road speed limits as the US does, more or less. So I can't see faster top speed being some sort of important factor.

[Tyyr]

Why do you need such an engine if you're limited to 55 miles per hour?

The 55 limit has been raised in most places from anywhere from 70 to 80 miles an hour. Additionally, that's just what's posted. On the highway most people drive another 10 to 15mph over the limit.