Arthur: > CAFE = combined average fuel efficiency ? (not sure but seems close) to > apply to the entire passenger car fleet. OK until some passenger cars were > conviently labelled light truck/SUV and didn't count against the over all > average.
The damn thing is built on a pick-up truck chassis so it IS: (a) classified as a light truck thus avoiding all sorts of passenger car safety & emission standards; and (b) as dangerous and more roll-over prone than a pick-up (which is already bad enough). See: "Axle of Evil," The New Republic (20 January 2003) by Gregg Easterbrook http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20030120&s=easterbrook012003 a review of: *High and Mighty: SUVs - The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way* by Keith Bradsher (PublicAffairs) *America's twisted love affair with sociopathic cars.* Stephen Straker Vancouver, B.C. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
