[s-cars] Thought-provoking stuff.......NAC, but all Car stuff.

[tony.curran at sympatico.ca]

...but may be there is some Audi content! Audi introduced a hybrid concept car in 1989, the Duo, based on the 100 Avant (see Nov 05 Audi Driver mag or google search).

What happened to it?

Tony
96 S6 (and an even thirstier Jag XJ8!)

> 
> From: "Taka Mizutani" <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
> Date: 2007/06/12 Tue AM 07:58:48 EDT
> To: "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>
> CC: s-car-list at audifans.com,  Jim Fleischer <jim at activelifestylemassage.com>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Thought-provoking stuff.......NAC, but all Car stuff.
> 
> Good discussion.
> 
> One thing that I see in the Northeast and suburbs is that there is too
> little population density, even in places like north Jersey, which is pretty
> much totally developed. Look at the really old towns around there and there
> are distinct town centers with a lot of old Victorians clustered fairly
> close together and within easy walking distance of the center of town, where
> there is a train station. If people lived in that kind of population density
> throughout, mass transit would be feasible.
> 
> Where I live now, it's too spread out- a lot of "towns" have no town center
> at all, it's more of just a district with a name. Everything is miles and
> miles away, can't easily walk there and there are no sidewalks or pedestrian
> paths by the main roads.
> 
> Unless people fundamentally change their ideas on prosperity and lifestyle,
> it's not going to happen any time soon- around here, having the big house on
> the big lot is a big deal. Everyone wants that, so developments become
> really spread out over acres and acres of land, which is only possible when
> you move far away from a town center. Thus, the suburban sprawl that is so
> prevalent across the US. It's really only in the downtown area of a major
> city where mass transit is useful- Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, D.C.
> 
> Until that changes, our dependence on foreign oil is probably going to
> result in the eventual decline of the US as a major power in the world.
> 
> Taka
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