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Originally posted by Jumperless@Feb 20th 2004 @ 1:44 PM
seeing articles like this are not comforting.
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It's a disturbing article, but one has to wonder about the writer ...
I found this sentence to be indicative:
"In the same four-year stretch, smaller 4-cylinder installations fell from nearly 27 percent to 25.3 percent."
So, 4 cylinders
nearly 27%, so probably 26.8 or 26.9? So they fell less than two percent? That statement could be accounted for when you see that more cars were manufactured each year, only the percentage of marketshare fell ... or perhaps they even increased the number of units but V8s increased more. You see what I mean? It seems like the writer is trying to mold the statistics into his thesis.
Also, I noted that he didn't make much mention about the difference between car standards for emissions and trucks.