Death To The SUV?

New Mileage Standards Could End U.S. SUV Production

General Motors is abandoning plans for its luxury Cadillac Sixteen could be the first in a long list of large cars, light trucks and SUVs scrapped by automakers, as they face more strict fuel economy standards in the near future.

The Senate has already approved a 40% boost to the nation


And the exemption that SUVs and light trucks enjoyed up until now would disappear, making it so that even gas-electric hybrid SUVs would have trouble meeting the standard. Automakers will have to produce a raft of smaller fuel-efficient cars, or find a way to make SUVs far more efficient if they are to continue to produce them in such numbers as they have in the past decade.

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