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Old 12-05-2012, 06:36 AM   #227
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Originally Posted by 2010-1SS-IBM View Post
I didn't ignore it, it's not relevant.

Does selling a 4 cylinder Camaro instead of a 4 cylinder Cruze (or insert any other non-muscle car here) improve fleet fuel economy? My guess is no.

But, by selling 4 cylinder muscle cars you do have a real good chance of messing up your muscle car sales. So we got that going for us...
It sure is relevent.

CAFE means that the overall average of the the cars sold by the manufacturer must be a certain number.

That means that the more cars they can sell with a higher mileage regardless is it's a Silverado, a Camaro, a Spark or a Cruze the better, to offset the number of vehicles they sell that don't get such great mileage.

If they don't sell enough of the higher mileage vehicles, they wont be ABLE to offer the Camaro's we want with the V8's.
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