New EPA Rules Encourage Crossovers To Be Classified As Trucks To Meet Relaxed Standards

New EPA Rules Encourage Crossovers To Be Classified As Trucks To Meet Relaxed Standards

Automakers have long known there's a double standard for gas mileage.

Cars have to meet higher goals, trucks have less stringent requirements. And the larger the vehicle, the lower the average fuel economy it has to deliver.

The proposed fuel economy standards for 2017 through 2025 vehicles perpetuate those distinctions.

Worse, the new rules continue profit incentives that led car companies to reclassify hundreds of thousands of vehicles not as cars but as light trucks--meaning their required gas mileage was lower.

 


Read Article

Joe_LimonJoe_Limon - 1/25/2012 4:21:18 PM
0 Boost
ooh so the new prius actually is classified as a truck? lol


CarCrazedinCaliCarCrazedinCali - 1/25/2012 6:25:07 PM
+3 Boost
BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD IDEA


cohwangcohwang - 1/25/2012 9:06:24 PM
+1 Boost
It's a tricky tactic for the manufacturers who know they can't meet the new standard.

Then we gonna see 40-50mpg "trucks" in the future.


Joe_LimonJoe_Limon - 1/26/2012 10:26:42 AM
+3 Boost
If I remember correctly, badgewhore is a social worker lol.


CarCrazedinCaliCarCrazedinCali - 1/26/2012 4:49:18 PM
0 Boost
I don't need welfare, good luck to you when your life falls apart and all you hear is crickets when you ask around for help. Try having some compassion and no I don't support free handouts, simply help when needed. Socialism is great anyway, just travel around Europe and take notice of how few poor and homeless and destitute people there are. Sounds great! Despite having social systems in place to keep people educated and in decent health, Germany remains an economic power house. Explain that one Fox "educated" whiner. My guess is you are hung up on race, how pitiful... In any case, fun to point out your ignorance. Keep it coming, I know you will. PS. Stop watching the so-called news network FOX and turn on some real news, not corporate purchased and filtered BS.


BrownsGoBackBrownsGoBack - 1/26/2012 6:06:36 PM
0 Boost
Over the last twenty years, the middle class in Germany has shrunk from 60% to 50%.

And Joe Limon is no racist! He's typically delusional on that issue.


jtz7jtz7 - 1/29/2012 3:12:20 PM
0 Boost
Why? To give insurance companies a reason to go up in price monthy?
Copyright 2026 AutoSpies.com, LLC