RE: [comment] VWoA...WTF?

["Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com>]

Geos as Pontiacs?  Which ones?  I can't think of any - they're all badged as Chevrolet, AFAIK.

 

Brings to mind an interesting question.  Does each carmaker have to meet CAFE corporately, or is it split by division?  i.e. will 1 Chevy Metro sold make up for 2 Cadillac Escalades, or does Cadillac have to somehow comply on their own?  If that's the case, it would seem GMC would have a very difficult time.

 

Assuming it's a corporate thing (as opposed to divisional), dumping the Geo name would have strictly been a marketing move.  Kind of like Plymouth and Oldsmobile.

 

Aaron
'82 Scirocco
'70 Beetle
'87 Jeep Cherokee 4.0
'81 Honda CX500

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Subject: Re: [comment] VWoA...WTF?

In a message dated 12/15/00 10:04:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,
jason@scirocco.org writes:

Those of you who aren't familiar with CAFE, it stands for Corporate Average
Fuel Economy.  It's currently at (I think) 24mpg.  This means that the
average fuel economy of all cars that any manufacturer sells in the USA
must lie under the 24mpg mark or the company will be fined heavily by the
EPA.

For every 42mpg Neon that Chrysler sells, it can sell *two* 18mpg
Dakotas.  Chrysler doesn't care that it loses a few hundred bucks on the
Neon, cause it more than makes up for it with the thousands that it earns
on every Dakota.

Perhaps that's why they just recently started selling Geos as Pontiacs....to
make up for their other Stupid Useless Vehicles.

Mike
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'84-Arkay Turbo Rabbit GTI
'84-Rabbit GTI - uh.....
'77-Rabbit - project
'80-Scirocco S - (um... to be:1.9L crossflow, turbo, 6 speed, widebody?)