The sole issue is guns and the fact that the rules governing their manufacture, distribution, purchase and use are more lax than those governing cars, food or toys.
It is difficult to pinpoint the gas mileage of Hummers because both the original Hummer, a diesel, and the gasoline-fed H2 are so heavy that they do not fall under normal federal fuel economy regulations that govern cars, S.U.V.'s and most pickups.
Hertz, a unit of Ford Motor, and Avis Rent a Car System, which is owned by Cendant, say ANC is using bankruptcy as a cover to evade airport contracts governing rental car companies.
Once you have central locking and a computer governing a car's functions, passive entry systems are cheaper than keys, said Julia Langenbach, a Delphi engineer.
With the connivance of its willing handmaidens and cronies in Washington and elsewhere -- including the ostensibly upright United Automobile Workers -- the S.U.V. is officially classified as a "light truck," a baldfaced whopper meant specifically to duck the far more stringent rules governing passenger car design, equipment and performance.
The FIA also changed the regulations governing Formula One car design, to the extent that the 1995 regulations required all teams to create completely new designs, as their 1994 cars could not be adapted to them.
In 1949 NASCAR changed the rules governing the cars: whereas in 1948 "modifieds"—cars varying in age and in the mechanical modifications made to them for the purpose of racing were allowed to compete, from June 1949 only late-model (recently manufactured) stock cars were permitted.
And California's legislators are pushing for a relaxation in the rules governing robot cars on their roads.
A SIMPLE geometric principle governs any car trip along the Eastern Seaboard: The shortest line between North and South is Interstate 95.
