Greg5OH

..what?
What are your sources for this? You ever drive a gas ford f250 vs a diesel f250 in town? Or even a tdi vs a 2.0 gas jetta. Jetta 35 mgg in town all day long, gas jetta, try 25. Higher torque at lower revs are the diesels clear advantage in city driving.

spwolf

He is talking about hybrids, town is their forte, they can keep engine off at least 50% of your drive.

rxonmymind

As Neurocity said it's about the money thus the reason you've seen various forms of trial balloons being trotted out to tax the American people based on the miles they drive. Which is the only way you'll see 200mpg vehicles.
It's IMPOSSIBLE for EVERY car company to have come out with the EXACT same engines that get the exact same mpg for the last forty years. Yet in every category from medicine, electronics, banking, shipping, agriculture has seen mind boggling improvements yet not in MPG? So every engineering school from Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Stanford etc can't make a car go over forty mpg in the last oh(1880) years since the invention of the combustion engine? Please.
Just look at where the Wright brothers first use of the four cylinder aluminum engine has come from to where it is now. We should be on par with aerospace in terms of technological achievement plus or minus some years for a nod toward emissions standard.

dicer

Hybrids are just plain costly when it comes time to fix a major problem.

JetsonES

It's pretty sad, hell, the model t got 25mpg

dicer

If they want to keep everything equal, you don't tax fuel higher if there is a car with better economy whether gas or electric, the simple fair thing to do is make the license tab cost more for the better economy car to equal what a gas hog car would spend on gas tax.