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Kelster · 01-07-2009, 01:37 AM

Chevydude is right about the Fiesta, it can reach 70 mpg.. Hell I had a friend in high school who had an '87 nissan sentra that we got 60 MPG out of once. The regulations that keep the euro fiesta as well as all of Fiat, SEAT, Alfa and the japanese KEI size vehicles has to do with crashworthyness. The NHTSA has apparently embarked on a crusade to completely eliminate highway deaths from wrecks by mandate.. They won't ever succeed, but in the process the ever more strict crash worthyness rules are forcing manufacturers into ever smaller design boxes, hemmed in by the NHTSA. The irony is that the crash worthyness standards are keeping out perfectly safe vehicles that could help the manufacturers meet the CAFE standard, also lorded over by; the NHTSA.
This bureaucracy is completely out of control and is aiding in the ruin of the American automotive industry, IMHO.

01-07-2009, 01:37 AM	#31
Kelster Drives: Many Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: N.E. Colorado Posts: 57	Chevydude is right about the Fiesta, it can reach 70 mpg.. Hell I had a friend in high school who had an '87 nissan sentra that we got 60 MPG out of once. The regulations that keep the euro fiesta as well as all of Fiat, SEAT, Alfa and the japanese KEI size vehicles has to do with crashworthyness. The NHTSA has apparently embarked on a crusade to completely eliminate highway deaths from wrecks by mandate.. They won't ever succeed, but in the process the ever more strict crash worthyness rules are forcing manufacturers into ever smaller design boxes, hemmed in by the NHTSA. The irony is that the crash worthyness standards are keeping out perfectly safe vehicles that could help the manufacturers meet the CAFE standard, also lorded over by; the NHTSA. This bureaucracy is completely out of control and is aiding in the ruin of the American automotive industry, IMHO.