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[KnottedYet]

When I was with my ex in Germany a few years ago, her cousin was talking about how they have to upgrade the emissions systems in US cars that come in to Germany. (He wanted to import a new Ford something-or-another) He's an engineer, so I believed him. I'd heard the thing about how we can't get fuel efficient cars here because of the emissions, too... but from the man-on-the-street it sounds like they're more strict there than here.

The Ford Model T got 25 mpg. I can't believe that a hundred years later we can't do much much better! (Hey, somebody link the article in the Seattle Times last week about the car made for a competition in 1970's that got 376 mpg and would get 174 mpg when street legal for 4 passengers)

Edit: I just searched the Times and can't find it...