Just curious, where do they sell it? Europe?

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Thats so Fu**ing stupid. Honestly I Live here in America. For all you Europeans I love my country but I do agree we are soooooo arogant to the world. Why wouldent they sell this thing in America. Even with its Problems They should sell it anyways. Imagine if everyone stopped and bought one..... This dirves me mad! I just bought a mercury mariner hybrid car 45 mpg. I get it in 10 days . WE NEED FUEL EFFICIENCY.

It's quite a damn nice looking car for a little econobox too.

I imagine it's too light to work on American roads though.

IT costs a lot to do crash testing and make the car safe enough for the USA since people in the USA don't know how to drive and the people who drive big trucks and semi trucks know even less of how to drive than adverage and crash into all the little cars.

We're getting the volt here but the European one seems better.. more room since it's a hatchback.

Econoboxes suck.

The Tesla Roadster rocks.

http://www.teslamotors.com/

It's priced like a Ferrari, goes from 0 to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds, and it's available in the USA. And oh, yeah, did I mention it gets the equivalent of 100 or more mpg? Take that, stupid econoboxes!!

I'm personally driving a Honda Civic. I average about 33 mpg, but I've hit 40+ on occasion. I don't own it, though. When I do finally buy my own vehicle, it's likely to be a Ford Focus (that 35 mg one) or one of Chevrolet's "Fuel Solutions" vehicles if they're in production by the time I'm ready to buy a new car. I like for high MPG, but I also like to support companies located in the USA.

I'd much prefer to keep the economy and throw away the box. I don't want to make a statement (and if I do, I want it to be "eat my dust"), I just want better mileage. Don't make me drive an ugly car just because I want a fuel efficient one.

Yeah, the Tesla Roadster does indeed rock.

I might add that it's approprately named too - Nikola Tesla did work almost exclusively with electricity.  He and Thomas Edison were almost equally famous (they both lived during the same time), but of course, people only remember one of them.

No offense but aren 't you supposed to post this on some car website?

We can not get the milage the euro cars get.  Its just not possible unless you did away with a lot of the epa stuff that is required. 

Get a grip!

To import a car from the US to the UK costs about an extra $20,000 to bring it up to UK safety standards. And that's before you decide you want to move the steering wheel to the other side.

I am talking about the gas milage of a euro car vs the us cars.  The emmisions laws we have (as well as the fact we use mostly gas rather then desiel for our cars) mean we can never get the same gas milage as the euro car.  I know of some decent size vans in german for example that get something like 30 miles+ on the highway.

And then the tiny cars.  How much does the "smart" car get for milage in the us?  I know its a lot more over in europe.

Assuming we stick to gasoline.

This will all change with the new bill to get electric cars on the road. Read about the bailout and it's tag on for electric cars. Also the Telsa is a huge step backwards. In the 90s they had SUVs that went further than that per charge.

Edit : Also cars in Europe are more efficient due to the fact they don't buy SUVs and other stupidly large cars.

Diesel. Seriously. Thats the answer. Until we run out of oil.

VAT is the largest cost addition to American car imports.  The average for safety upgrades is like 500 pounds.  I suppose you get your news from the BBC?

Diesel engines do not need diesel to run. The reason they starting using the fuel we call diesel in these engines was because it was a waste product of gas.  So they found a good use for it. Now a days its used so much its in very high demand.  We need to invest in the other kinds of fuels that work in a diesel.

Put yes diesel is a good answer.

I don't have the passanger size down, but I do know over in europe they have some say 12 passanger vans that are deisel and they get fairly decent milage for a veichel that size.  Even the SUVs can get decent milage, but require money put into them in order to get it.  With enoght money invested in after market parts an v-6 explorer (2 wheel drive) can get over 30mpg.  The tec is there but there are to many restrictions to be able to do if from the factory.

Now with 4 wheel drive its not going to be as high but still a decent gain.  With the v8 (depending on which year) you could get around the same milage and in some cases better milage.  Not so much highway or city, but on back roads with a lot of hills the 8 really does help out.

I picked the explore since its a mid sized suv.  Once you get bigger then that, well I don't see milage improving to much.  The smaller suvs, such as the ford escape can really have their milage improved. 

Now what they need to do is get them some deisels and I bet that would really help out SUVS.