[Cialug] OT: safe/reliable fuel-efficient cars.

[Afan Pasalic]

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> On 2009-02-27 at 11:42:00, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>   
>> I heard on NPR last night or this morning that GM lost almost $4000 on
>> every car they sold last year.
>>     
>
> Ouch. Why bother making them then? Wouldn't it be more profitable to go 
> out of business?
>   
It's more profitable to get $800B and THEN go out of business.
:-)



>   
>> Do driver's ed programs even teach manual transmissions anymore?  When
>> I too driver's ed <mumble> years ago, we spent maybe one or two class
>> sessions on driving a manual.
>>     
>
> I took driver's ed roughly 16 years ago. They didn't teach manual 
> transmission then. Well, we had 1 day of manual in a driving simulator. 
> But all the warning lights the simulator had were turned off for that 
> day so it really didn't do any good.
>
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