Following my trip to Nissan and my concerns over how much material goes in to a modern car, I started looking in to the old Fiat 500 and found this - a very interesting comparison between old and new. 60 years separate these cars, yet the original actually uses slightly less fuel than the new one. Is this right? Can we really call this progress, or intelligent design? Why do we carry all this stuff around in cars all the time? What is the minimum that is actually needed to make a car? To be continued...
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