I’ve got a car question for the engineering people on this board, maybe someone can answer it.

Let’s compare two cars, one new (for example a 25mpg Mazda) and an older Honda Civic CVCC or Geo Metro that averages around 40mpg. Obviously the newer car probably has the better sulfur and smog characteristics per gallon but wouldn’t the higher mpg car have less to pollute in the first place? Aren’t both cars going to release the same amount of CO2 per gallon?

My father and I are trying to find a reasonably clean, high MPG car that is more mechanical in nature and accomplishes this without the aid of electronics but we’re coming to the conclusion that there’s no way to escape the current paradigm unless cars go completely electric.

I can’t believe how backwards cars are in a lot of ways, and I’m even talking about Japanese ones. It shouldn’t be that hard to get a car that outputs its diagnostic information to a USB drive, or places sensors in a user friendly configuration.

Heh, question/rant over.