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Originally Posted by NatCh
The trouble with SUV's is that there's a need for large vehicles (I didn't say everyone who has one needs it, just that some do), and the CAFE regulations that the U.S. passed in the '70s somehow made it prohibitive to keep making station wagons (I don't understand the details, I'm afraid). |
The CAFE standards made station wagons less profitable for car companies to make. They could make more money by repackaging pickup trucks, because the truck emissions standards were more lax. Enter the SUV "craze."
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Originally Posted by NatCh
I've been a Saturn driver since fall of 1993 (I'm on my second one  ), and I was a bit unenthusiastic about the idea of going to a Chevy, but then I found out that the HHR and the Saturn Ion have the same frame, power-plant and drive train, so it's really just a Saturn with a different body style. |
One way to think of it. You could also say the Ion is just a Chevy with a different body style.
So says the Tiburon driver. Hatchbacks rule!
