Posted: Oct 25 2005 at 11:20pm | IP Logged

pied_piper wrote: With all the talk of bigger motors and mores horses, doesn't the auto manufactors think about all the oil problems that the nation is facing? ... You would think that manufactors would balance out a system to where these bigger engines would somehow, in a perfect world, also have better fuel economy...

Yeah it seems like they ought to be able to devise a system that would shut off 2 or possibly 4 cylinders when cruising on the hwy to save gas. Many years ago it seems like I recall a Ford salesman telling me that their F150 would cut off 4 cylinders if it was overheating.