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Originally Posted by azfan
Use to live in California. Most beautiful place to live. Unfortunately it's taken over by nuts and foreigners. Hopefully they will get their way, pass more insane laws, and the Car Companies will just pull out of there , like all other businesses do.
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Oh, I used to live in CA as well and I agree about who's taken over. But back in the 90's CA really helped push technology with their "percent of cars that must be zero emission" law. The EV1 was a pretty slick little car...I rode in one when they had them at the local Saturn dealer. I think a lot of us would have electric cars for commuting and muscle cars for cruising right now if they kept it up...but CA ditched the law and the EV1, and the technology in them, were gone in a heartbeat. I had a Honda Insight for a while and it really kept the miles off my Colorado and Fiero. At least the VOLT will help bring Chevy's mileage average up in the near future, but think how high it would be if they already had three or four electric cars available right now.
Leaving CO2 aside, when you look at how much the air quality in places like LA have improved over the last 30 years, it sure looks like they got something right. Here in Oregon there are all kinds of blue-smoke-blowers, mostly old early-'90s Hondas and Acuras, and you never ever saw that in CA unless the car was 30+ years old (like my stanky 65 Caddy!)
I like's me some rumble, don't get me wrong, but for daily driving I stick with the wife's econo-car...especially when gas tops $4/gal. Personally, I'm looking forward to a Camaro that gets kick-ass mileage. If not for the regulations, trust me, it wouldn't, and it would cost twice as much to feed. If GM can crank out a 304HP 29MPG car as big as the Camaro, just think what's next!!
