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Lotus Elise = green car

JimKiler

JimKiler

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Seriously my work is moving into a new building with Leeds certification and we have high fuel efficiency parking spaces. One of the cars listed as qualifying is the 2011 Lotus Elise which only has a 4 cylander engine and gets 22/27 MPG.

Who knew you could have a fuel efficient sports car and it is not even a hybrid.
 
JimKiler said:
Seriously my work is moving into a new building with Leeds certification and we have high fuel efficiency parking spaces. One of the cars listed as qualifying is the 2011 Lotus Elise which only has a 4 cylander engine and gets 22/27 MPG.

Who knew you could have a fuel efficient sports car and it is not even a hybrid.
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22 / 27 MPG is fuel efficient in America D:
 
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JimKiler said:
For a car no but for a SUV or truck yes but that is quickly changing with the new cars coming that will hit 40 on the highway.
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I still don't get the appeal of pickup trucks (Assuming that's what you are talking about)

Also: Lol @ "will hit 40 on the highway" as though that's impressive...
 
It's a little car with a 4cyl... not too surprising. If anything I'm surprised it's not a bit higher. I've knocked on the door of 30mpg in my Eclipse when it was around 300 hp.
 
It actually is. One version of it gets 40MPG.

The engine in an Elise is from a Toyota Celica.

(I almost bought one of those some time ago, but I don't fit in it 🙁 )
 
HAL9000 said:
I still don't get the appeal of pickup trucks (Assuming that's what you are talking about)

Also: Lol @ "will hit 40 on the highway" as though that's impressive...
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You guys use imperial gallons, we don't. Imperial gallons are bigger.
48 mpg for you = 40 mpg for us. FIXED - Had this backwards

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Actually, looking at some other information it looks like the UK's fuel economy estimates are even higher than what you can account for due to their larger gallon. They rate a 2011 jetta with the 2.0 l TDI at 58.8 mpg, we rate it at 30 city/42 highway. Their rating system must result in much higher estimates.
 
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HAL9000 said:
In that case 40 US MPG is even less impressive, making my argument even more so.
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lol that's funny

man i'm an american, and i bitch constantly about americans.. it's real...

americans are fat, greedy, gas guzzling idiots for the most part....

but it only makes sense, the europeans have had a more stable environment...which means, evolution was more stable.. happened faster....

there's a reason we drive fuckin excursions and are in debt, and are fat.... and the euro's are better looking, more sophisticated, more intelligent (look at our debt) and drive econo cars..

oh and lets not forget realized that capatilism, really.. only hurts the vast majority.

oh and i wanted to add... most americans dont even CARE about the vast majority.
 
zanejohnson said:
lol that's funny

man i'm an american, and i bitch constantly about americans.. it's real...

americans are fat, greedy, gas guzzling idiots for the most part....

but it only makes sense, the europeans have had a more stable environment...which means, evolution was more stable.. happened faster....

there's a reason we drive fuckin excursions and are in debt, and are fat.... and the euro's are better looking, more sophisticated, more intelligent (look at our debt) and drive econo cars..

oh and lets not forget realized that capatilism, really.. only hurts the vast majority.

oh and i wanted to add... most americans dont even CARE about the vast majority.
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But even given all of that, surely we share technology, so you guys should have the same cars as us, and therefore the same fuel economy...
 
Meh.

Corvette's with twice the power have been doing that for years. Gearing/torque ftw.
 
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HAL9000 said:
But even given all of that, surely we share technology, so you guys should have the same cars as us, and therefore the same fuel economy...
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Not exactly. Up until recently, you couldn't get a new diesel in five states, which meant car companies wouldn't sell diesels in this country (may have only been five, but you're talking a large chunk of our population). Even today, I think you just have VW and Mercedes selling diesels in the states, except for large trucks/commercial vehicles. We're primarily stuck with regular gas engines.
 
Strk said:
Not exactly. Up until recently, you couldn't get a new diesel in five states, which meant car companies wouldn't sell diesels in this country (may have only been five, but you're talking a large chunk of our population). Even today, I think you just have VW and Mercedes selling diesels in the states, except for large trucks/commercial vehicles. We're primarily stuck with regular gas engines.
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Wow, that's insanity.
 
HAL9000 said:
Wow, that's insanity.
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it's all about what the market demands. We have always wanted bigger, more powerful cars, for different reasons.

gas has also always been much, much cheaper here, so it's a whole host of factors that determine common design.
 
zanejohnson said:
lol that's funny

man i'm an american, and i bitch constantly about americans.. it's real...

americans are fat, greedy, gas guzzling idiots for the most part....

but it only makes sense, the europeans have had a more stable environment...which means, evolution was more stable.. happened faster....

there's a reason we drive fuckin excursions and are in debt, and are fat.... and the euro's are better looking, more sophisticated, more intelligent (look at our debt) and drive econo cars..

oh and lets not forget realized that capatilism, really.. only hurts the vast majority.

oh and i wanted to add... most americans dont even CARE about the vast majority.
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The ironing...
 
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