mcelligott

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/12/13/fue...ule/index.html

WILB3

The government has mandated that all SUVs/light trucks increase their fuel economy 1.5 gallons by 2007. See attached link from CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/12/13/fue...ule/index.html

Daddy-O

How lame...I saw this report on TV last night and immediately thought how lucky I was to have such a fuel efficient, low emission vehicle in this class.

I guess the editors there don't drive an RX 300.

mooretorque

Talk about worthless........make it 30 mpg and then we wouldn't have to try to see around so many 3 ton Excursions on the road..........

Chuckieb

Daddy-o, the problem is those 3 little words "in this class". The Sierra Club isn't against our RX's, they are against "this class" -i.e. anything that doesn't get 35MPG

Or in Canada, where politician in charge of this stuff drives a hybrd (55mpg) or peddles his bicycle to work, the standard is likely to be 50MPG ("if i can drive a 55MPG vehicle, so can every Canadian)

xsfo

That's probably the most annoying argument they have. I mean an RX gets about the same mileage as a lot of luxury sports sedans. But you don't hear about protests about sports cars and their affect on the environment. I was considering the following cars and their EPA mileage isn't so great either.
Lexus GS300 gets 18/25
Mercedes-Benz C240 gets 17/26