ShootSpeeders
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I drive a $2000 car and it runs and looks great. It's used. Only morons buy new cars.
GM?s $9,800 Car . . . The One We?re Not Allowed to Buy |
Posted on June 6, 2013
How much is the EPA and DOT costing you?
One way to quantify this is to consider a car GM builds but which you cant buy. Well, not unless you move outside the United States and beyond the diktats and fatwas of the EPA and DOT.
It is called the Sail and GM makes it in China. It retails for 60,000 yuan equivalent to about $9,800 in federal reserve notes.
Demand for the car is so great that GM plans to increase its exports of the Sail to countries like Chile and Ecuador by nearly 70 percent, according to a recent Reuters article (see here).
It just wont be exported here.
Those two federal agencies mentioned at the beginning of this story. These unelected and unaccountable bureaucracies have made it illegal a criminal offense to sell you a car like the Sail. Which, by the way, is neither primitive nor pathetic. The most recent design is a modern and aesthetically appealing sedan or five-door hatchback wagon with a Corvette-inspired dual cockpit dash layout. The car has AC, power windows, power door mirrors and a modern stereo with Bluetooth wireless and music streaming. It even has a leather-wrapped steering wheel.
It would look at home on any road and in any garage in the Western world.
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