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I wrote:
Not to mention other makers of small cars like Fiat and Renault and Peugeot
>which have never done well in the US.
>Not to mention makers of small cars like Seat which have never even bothered
>to try to import to the US.

jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) wrote:
>I doubt that many of the "small" European cars would pass American safety
>tests.  Some of those cars are little more than lawnmower engines with
>sheet metal wrapped around.  (Gross over exageration ...)

Bullsh*t.  They can be as safe as they want to be.  Witness the Renault R5,
the Yugo, the MGB,...  All late-Seventies to mid-Eighties cars that were sold
here (i.e. passed safety & emission tests) and died painful deaths.

Back to the original point, "European cars that are _sold_in_this_country_
[emphasis mine.  aqn.] have the worst fuel economy, coming in third after
the American and Japanese fleets," as you said.
There is also no denying that European cars as a whole, are equal to or better
than Japanese or American cars in the fuel economy department.
(Lawn mower engines and all that.)

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