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No we just don't like being told what do, by Smug smart Asses in California.

Hey I gotta an Idea! Why don't you manufacture cars in California, so they can inject and dictate what goes in them or don't? California could just set the standard right at the source, and only provide one flavor of automobiles. Maybe then we could be a Nation that drives the battery powered Barbie Wrangler everywhere.

OH, that's right, California Can't because the only industry California can get are the ones that doesn't have any byproducts or waste, lest the State makes it cost prohibitive. I'm surprised California hasn't figured out a way to tax and oppress the Tech industry. I think the Californians aren't trying hard enough. The Tech industry produces as much waste and junk as everyone else. Their annual packaging and marketing material waste alone could probably fill up a Staten Island.

See that's just Liberal elite chastising the Fat Asses for not buying Eggs on wheels.

Tenouncetrout says

No we just don’t like being told what do, by Smug smart Asses in California.

Well... that is only because it is different than what the smug smart-asses on FOX "news" are telling you to do.

Tenouncetrout says

I’m surprised California hasn’t figured out a way to tax and oppress the Tech industry.

Perhaps you need to rethink your notions about California.

...Ohh... wait... that would require basing your opinions on facts... never mind then, I can't expect you to make such a hurdle.

Cook County resident says

Are we really to big to drive small? I’m not. I’m over 6 feet tall and embarrassingly fat. Yet my favorite car was a Geo Metro.

Yeah, I am 6'2" drive a mid-sized car and fit with no problems.

I have test driven many small cars that I could fit in just fine, but there are also some small and mid sized cars that are uncomfortable even when I have the seat so far back that it makes the seat behind me unusable.

What does Fox news have to do with anything, or at least me.
I watch CNN, if I watch news at all. I listen to NPR, just so I get my daily dose of mental wedgies over sheer load of BS, Californians are always trying to submit the rest of the country to. No matter how far over the edge of total financial collapse they venture.

Do I really need Bill O'Riley to tell me when I should be pissed off?

I'm with ya Apoclypsescrewjob

But those cars burned gas. Not much mind you, but it didn't use underdeveloped over priced Nerd power.

In other words those cars don't have a strong enough Fuckification factor. The last damn thing the Government wants to buy is a car that runs for ever on a few cents of gas.

leoj707 says

Yeah, I am 6′2″ drive a mid-sized car and fit with no problems.

I have test driven many small cars that I could fit in just fine, but there are also some small and mid sized cars that are uncomfortable even when I have the seat so far back that it makes the seat behind me unusable.

True. I've found that low roof lines and mail slot windows are more of a problem than leg room or hip room.

It doesn't bother me, though. There are well designed economy (low profit) cars which suit me fine.. The big on the outside, small on the inside cars are for someone else.

It's amusing when some agenda group jumps on the bandwagon without knowing the facts:

"Resources For the Future, a Washington D.C. think-tank that explores environmental and energy issues, says they've found a link between obesity and large vehicle sales, too. They say policies that reduce obesity can also reduce fuel consumption, because smaller people drive smaller cars."

We do manufacture cars in California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

And it's not that we have to try that hard to get the rest of the country to follow us. It's because we are a large economy with a large population.

Whine all you want, but that's market forces at work.

My favorite car was a ford fiesta and I'm 6'2". I liked them so much I owned 3 of them. Got 300k out of one of them but lent the the other 2 to people who wrecked them. It was the closest you could come to driving a go cart on public roads. Really a blast to toss around.

Hey Apocalypse my current car (actually my haul the kids beater, My personal ride is a very un PC older bimmer 7) is an 87 subie wagon 1.6 but only 2wd. Manual everything trans, steering, brakes, windows, locks, etc.. Strong, simple, built like a tank, and almost as slow as my rabbit diesel. I've had buses full up people pass me on uphill grades. Other than that it's great to drive.

The best small car was the Datsan B10
The thing just ran, even with out a battery, you could stick your leg out the door, push it back until the wheel rolled about a 1/4 revolution, pop the clutch and you were off the races.

Other cars always made me wonder, when something like a battery or starter would strand me.