The weather and poverty in the area seem to be the biggest factors. The central part of the country seems to be falling behing in many ways. I have driven from Texas to Illinois and it was pretty awful. The general state of disrepair, graffiti and unkempt looking areas.
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r.i.p. alleria. 1997-2017. blizzard ruined alleria forever. blizz assassinated alleria's character and appearance.
i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
I think I routinely get about 13mpg out of my car driving around town. Might get up to 18 on the freeway. Good thing work is only 6 miles from home.
Further demonstrating the diminishing quality of posters on this forum.
I don't think they should be banned however, I think they should have higher insurance (just they sports cars do).
SUVs/and big ass trucks have become the status symbols that sports cars were in the 80s. See so many SUVs that clearly have never seen a pot hole let alone off road, and so many monster size trucks that have never had anything put in the back.
Own a big truck/SUV w/out it being used for its intended purpose ... probably have a small dick.
I am not pro Flight, I am pro a better more engaging game. I just took the pro flight stance cause I knew Blizzard couldn't deliver. Looks like I was right
why not just ban all automobiles because they pollute too much. unless you have a large family, you wouldn't even need a car anyway. most people would do just fine with a bicycle and public transport. </sarcasm>
you already pay more due to increased gas usage, aka, gas tax.
I'm not in favour of bannign them.
But in favour of high fines for blocking roads due to incompetence at the wheel coupled with their ridiculous size.
They should also always be ruled to be at fault when they injure a small child because the driver was too small to reach the windows to see where they are going.*
*Because somehow it is always hordes of tiny women driving huge cars their husband got for them to get a single child each from primary school.
I don't understand trolls like this.
What are you getting out of it? Is your life that empty that it genuinely keeps you entertained?
I literally explained this earlier in this thread. Small engines have their advantage and disadvantages. V8 engines can indeed be as efficient or even more fuel efficient as 4 cylinder engines if done right. Corvettes for example have been able to achieve 30mpg or 40mpg for a vehicle that wasn't designed around fuel efficiency. If you could couple these cars with a hybrid electric system you could recycle that lost energy you get from stop and go traffic. In fact GM is doing with with the C8 Corvette where the new engine is a DOHC V8 mid mounted with a hybrid electric battery that makes it AWD.
The main thing to think about is that bigger engines deal with heat better as they can run at lower compression and therefore don't use fuel as a way to cool it down under heavy load. All engines at Wide Open Throttle will waste fuel to keep the engine cool while running, and smaller engines do this more often. No engine has fuel trims with air and fuel mixed perfectly at high rpm because of the heat that's produced. For better MPG you want an engine to run lean but running lean makes the engine hotter and will result in a warped or cracked motor. Smaller engines that require higher compression for better performance will run hotter and therefore dump more fuel under higher rpm. This is why a Honda S2000 2.0L 4 cylinder will get worse MPG than a V8 6.2L Corvette.
6 million miles of road in the United States, the greatest network of land-based travel on this planet, and "their roads are absolute garbage".
Let me educate you since you seem a little stupid. The "US" doesn't dictate the construction and upkeep of roads on a federal level. They aren't even done on a state level, for the most part. It's mostly done on a county-based level. Some states are known for their poor roads (looking at you, Illinois). Most of these "absolute garbage" roads occur in places of extreme temperature change, over 110 F or below -40 F. The damage to the roads is inevitable at these temperatures and their repair is time-consuming in areas of very high or very low traffic based on their popularity or importance.
I've been alive in the US for three decades now and I have only experienced 'absolute garbage' roads in a few select places. That's pretty good considering the amount of road. The US has 1.6 million more miles of roadway than all of the EU combined (that's 2,574,950 km), but I guess if I were to find a bad road in Europe, they're all 'absolute garbage' by your logic.
Edit: where I live, three months out of the year are dedicated to extensive roadwork; it's one of the four seasons.
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Damn, that's nearly double the rated MPG of the highest MPG minivan.
I'm now pretty curious what unknown pinnacle of engineering you've been hiding from the world this entire time.
What make and model exactly?
Guess we know who the tree huggers are in this thread.