Even odder, full-size Mustangs are selling like hot cakes here. > On 16 July 2019 at 00:35 [email protected] wrote: > > > Odd - years ago in Australia everyone had a big, American-style gas-guzzler: > even my mother had a Chrysler Charger as her daily drive. Now, the most > popular cars are Toyota Corollas and Camrys, and the Camry is classed as a > big car. > I drive a Honda City - cheap, at under $20k, but comfortable, well-equipped, > and cheap to run at 5-7litres per 100k consumption. I seldom drive more than > 100k in a day, so it's much more practical than a bigger, more expensive car. > > John in Brisbane > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ralf R Radermacher > Sent: Monday, 15 July 2019 6:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Paul's NYTimes piece > > Am 15.07.19 um 06:45 schrieb Larry Colen: > > > Cars for driving on the street with upwards of 500 hp are not rare. > > Just imagine the gas mileage we could get from cars with less power which > would not need to be built for safety at speeds far beyond 200 km/h. I pray > every day that our government will at last introduce a general speed limit on > our motorways. It wouldn't even change much because large parts are already > under speed restrictions but there'd be no more need to build all cars for > this nonsense. Their whole design could be made far lighter and leaner. > > Belgian motorways have been restricted to 120 km/h for decades. As a result, > driving there is much more relaxed than here in Germany where you have the > lorries on the right lane, the middle lane owners club at > 110 km/h and the guys in their black Audis and BMWs gunning down the left > lane at whatever speed they can do so. A madhouse on wheels. > > I heard this morning that the regional government of Brussels has just > decided to turn the whole town into a 30 km/h zone (18 mph) in 2021. > Noone needs a Cayenne or a RAM under these conditions but still the Belgians > buy them as if their salvation depended on it. > > Our cars have become ever heavier, bigger and most of all wider. On the > average European car park, the average car hardly fits between the white > lines nowadays. All this has gone totally out of hand. >
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