{"id":2810,"date":"2010-02-23T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:46:41","slug":"more-market-rigging-to-favour-government-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/more-market-rigging-to-favour-government-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"More market-rigging to favour Government Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of German sports cars, this might be a swan song for your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/obama-will-take-away-your-porsche\/\" target=\"_blank\">preferred makes and models<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a few years, by 2016 to be exact, P.J. O\u2019Rourke\u2019s \u201cass-engined Nazi slot car\u201d may be history in the U.S.A. Gone. By that time, Porsche needs to have a Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) of 41.4 mpg &mdash; if President Obama gets his wish. Mission impossible, says Porsche. Jack Baruth, stock up. Porsches will be extinct.<\/p>\n<p>On May 19, 2009 President Barack Obama proposed a new national fuel economy program. If signed into law in May this year, as currently planned, the law will throw a nasty punch, beginning in the model year 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Porsche-Lobbyist Stefan Schl\u00e4fli talked to the German Edition of the Financial Times, before taking off for Washington for a last ditch effort to save the endangered species. Says the FTD: \u201cHardest hit will be German producers of premium brands which sell big-engined large cars. Critics in the German camp don\u2019t think this is a coincidence. The formulas used to calculate the maximum permissible values are tailor-made for U.S. manufacturers. Basis for the calculation will be wheel base and track width &mdash; highly unusual criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A short and compact Porsche is faced with much stricter limits than a Corvette. Not to mention a pick-up. Large manufacturers turn into a CAFE-society, and can offset their thirsty oinkers with smaller cars. Porsche doesn\u2019t have that option. Neither does Aston Martin, Jaguar,  Land Rover and other eclectic brands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that the government has a major financial stake in GM and Chrysler, they don&#8217;t even need to pretend to be even-handed in their regulatory fixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of German sports cars, this might be a swan song for your preferred makes and models: In a few years, by 2016 to be exact, P.J. O\u2019Rourke\u2019s \u201cass-engined Nazi slot car\u201d may be history in the U.S.A. Gone. 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