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Jeff Johnson @ Nov 20th 2007 10:14AM
Hmmm okay the thought is good, but if they only make 6000 cars a year, a VERY large proportion of which are *not* daily drivers. There is little point to all this.
I do love ferrari's (what 26 year old man doesn't) but if people were serious about the whole pollution and "green" game they would start their quest in a place that mattered and not this "oh look at me/feel good" stuff with Ferrari.
When you really think about it - if I was filthy rich and could afford a Ferrari or two, if it got 25-35MPGs, something would feel wrong. Deep down inside i expect a crazy expensive car to get crazy crappy gas milage, just beacuse its a supercar damit!
Torqued @ Nov 20th 2007 10:39AM
That's true, but if Ferrari can get 30MPG or whatever out of a 500HP supercar, that technology can trickle eventually down to everyday vehicles.
I'm all for putting the Ferrari engineering crew to work on technologies that I'll (eventually) use in my car.
kpluck @ Nov 20th 2007 3:18PM
Acutally they could make 10 million cars and there still would be little point to this. Man accounts for less than 4% of the CO2 emissions on the planet. The rest is produced in nature. Even if all of man kind cut its CO2 emissions by 50% the change would be insignificant.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Nov 20th 2007 8:02PM
kpluck:
"Cow farts" don't matter. The carbon released by "cow farts" and such is carbon that was taken out of the air in the spring when the plants grew that the cows then consumed. So, if you measure Jan 1 to Jan 1, cows don't add any carbon to the air. So they can't increase the CO2 level over time.
What does add carbon to the air is burning fossil fuels that were locked into the crust tens of thousands of years ago.
Please try to understand the issues at hand.