Every family imagines of having a luxurious car like a Lexus, BMW, Mercezdes or an Audi. These luxury cars come with many benefits. Luxury car owners can drive down the street in style and have more options to their cars like touch-screen navigation, heated-seats, power-windows, and a bluetooth machine. Although driving in style is what many look for, these cars are far from being environment friendly, not to mention the money that goes into oil changes, and maintence checkups. With numbers reaching the high 3-4 dollars a tank, gas prices are now a highly discussed problem in modern society. As new technology, such as phones, internet, navigation start rolling in- people have now searched for a better way to save money and to help save the environment. The mass of the average personal vehicle in the U.S. has gone up 29% since 1987. There is a misconception based on a common assumption of: "heavier the car, the safer it must be". SUV's put out 43% more global-warming pollutants (28 pounds of carbon dioxide per gallon of gas consumed) and 47% more air pollution than the average car. In life, many wrong turns always end up with a single right and that's where fuel-efficient cars were created.
Fuel-efficient cars are more costly, in the long run, however it can save gas money and it can also help the environment. For a person that drives long distances, fuel-efficient cars may be the answer to their gas price prayers. Companies like Honda, Toyota, and Volkswagen take the lead in the top 10 fuel-efficient cars, if you're interested in buying one.
But times are changing, and many newer models are now equipped with fuel-economy computers that give information for the driver to do a better job in saving the environment. Chevrolet, Toyota, Nissan and others are planning to add fuel-economy features to all new models in the next few years.
What's newer than a fuel efficient car? Now, there's a submarine car invented that was once never imaginable. So what's next? A car that can soar through the sky or a car that can launch into space? What newer inventions do you think will be likely to come next, and will they be successful in the long-run?
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I think that I would rather have a car that is a luxury car or a sports car, that take a small car that is fuel effiecient and environment friendly. If the day comes when they make a corvette that is environment friendly thaen I will be gladly to buy that car. But since that day has not come then I would rather buy a car that is normal and gives me all that I want in a car. Now technology is one of the things that I want in a car, so there is a certain price I am willing to pay to get that sort of technology. There are some european cars that are going environment friendly, but what I last heard was that once mercedes was offered a rotary engine, which is a very efficient engine and gives you more horse power, they turned it down which now the engine is in one of the japanese Mazda RX8. Now, why didnt Mercedes take adventage of that car I dont know, but Im sure they have a pretty good reason. They have already built cars that fly but they are way too expensive.
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