Re: There are rumors in circulation...
Posted by Guscha On 2011/10/3 12:59:18
Keith, both Kev and Howard are on solid ground. Direct components of automobile tax are engine size and emission. An indirect component but very important is the tax included in fuel costs (approx two-thirds of fuel costs are taxes).
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Nonpersonal and non-judgemental I kindly ask our members to name three large cities in Portugal...
Without internet the majority of Europeans don't know the difference between Chevrolet and Cadillac and one of the most known US vehicle is the Coca-Cola christmas truck. 99 of 100 German citizen have no idea what SBC means and even if, the next available exchange engine would probably be 6,000 miles away.
And now listen: given one would have a SBC and a car to fit and the money for tax and fuel and a source for spare parts many people wouldn't want to install it nevertheless.
For European eyes it is too heavy, too ponderous and too unrefined. The oil crisis in 1973 started a change in thinking and the growing ecological sensibility intensified that philosophy. In the course of years it disembogued in a paradigm shift. German consumers looking for "modern" cars. A car is prestigious when fully furnished AND economical, ecological, save, maneuverable and while acceleration power is a kind of implicitness the power of deceleration sometimes is a unique selling point.
Product lines echo three general orientations of European car customers and all of them ask for maximum fuel efficiency:
1 - luxury (vanguards)
2 - sporty (clean conscience)
3 - beginner (costs).
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Consequently, only a minority of them have eight-cylinders installed.
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...When Russians or Europeans decide to do an "engine swap" then why not choose the SBC like the vast majority of Americans do?????...
Nonpersonal and non-judgemental I kindly ask our members to name three large cities in Portugal...
Without internet the majority of Europeans don't know the difference between Chevrolet and Cadillac and one of the most known US vehicle is the Coca-Cola christmas truck. 99 of 100 German citizen have no idea what SBC means and even if, the next available exchange engine would probably be 6,000 miles away.
And now listen: given one would have a SBC and a car to fit and the money for tax and fuel and a source for spare parts many people wouldn't want to install it nevertheless.
For European eyes it is too heavy, too ponderous and too unrefined. The oil crisis in 1973 started a change in thinking and the growing ecological sensibility intensified that philosophy. In the course of years it disembogued in a paradigm shift. German consumers looking for "modern" cars. A car is prestigious when fully furnished AND economical, ecological, save, maneuverable and while acceleration power is a kind of implicitness the power of deceleration sometimes is a unique selling point.
Product lines echo three general orientations of European car customers and all of them ask for maximum fuel efficiency:
1 - luxury (vanguards)
2 - sporty (clean conscience)
3 - beginner (costs).
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...European Mercedes, BMW and Audi built for European sales do NOT have the V8's ????
Consequently, only a minority of them have eight-cylinders installed.
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