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      03-04-2015, 06:15 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh View Post
The reason for this is not engineering, but rather current and upcoming CAFE/Emissions regulations. Large manuafacturers like GM can build high-horsepower cars because they have the economy cars and large foot-print truck sales in their fleet to offset the C7, CTS-V and ATS-V, the Germans do not (yet).
Do you really think that the top end HP cars from the Germans sell enough to make any meaningful impact on their overall CAFE numbers?

Audi has VW and BMW has Mini to help out.
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