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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

> Actually, the misalignment between the Car and Light Truck 
> categories is 
> one of the ills that this new legislation is targeting.  

This does bring up another point. Since all along a less restrictive set
of safety and environmental regulations has been in effect for light
trucks than cars, it has been in Detroit's best financial interest to
push trucks more than cars, since it costs them much less in engineering
expenses to comply with light truck regulations than with car
regulations (which means more profit for trucks). Bringing these two
sets of regulations closer together will become more important in the
near future when more of these so-called 'crossover' vehicles hit the
market, which are hybrids between cars and trucks. In fact, Detroit's
push for getting vehicles classified as trucks has even gone so far that
DaimlerChrysler has managed to get the PT Cruiser classified by some
government agencies as a car and by others as a truck!!

- Bill