The Most Fuel Efficient Cars

IN 1979 I bought a docdge Colt hatchback with a 1.4 carborated ENGINE that consistantly beat the PREIUS numbers given here...my neighbor had a VW Diesel that got 56 mpg...if you want to blame our current eneficiency on anyone forget the car companies and look at the environmentalists who have made computers, catalytic converters and fuel injection their gods. Ill take 49 mpg highway in 1979 and 44 overall ...by the way where did the 50+ mpg METRO go in this survey?....I think this article must have been wirtten by the marketing department for HONDA and TOYOTA ...give us a break.

One larger omission for a new fuel efficient vehicle are the VW TDIs - they get more than over half the vehicles included in this top 10. Several Saturn vehicles and Fords get better mileage than several shown here as well.

I just puirchased a 1998 Buick Le Sabre with 66,000 miles on it and drove it, a large automobile, from Atlanta, Georgia, to Tacoma. Washingtron, and got an amazing 29-30 miles per gallon regular gas. And this large roomy car has almost all the amenities, except no remote door lock, trunk lock, or CD Player. In town it gets 22 mpg..

My 2007 Ford Hybrid Escape gets 30 mpg. It is spacious in storage and luxuious with leather seats and moon roof. It is so quiet I don't realize it is running. It has been totally dependable, no break downs. When I am in traffic, I burn no gas. I really wanted to buy American and go green back in 2007. I wil never be sorry. Resale on a Hybrid gotta be better than a Hummer. LOL.

I suppose this piece has as sense of Irony. America's most fuel efficient cars do not include a single American car. How about a Chevy Cobalt? The Cobalt is more efficient than a Mazda Miata, Honda Accord, or Nissan Versa, and rivals a Mini or Corolla if you opt for manual transmission. Of course I'm cherry picking one example, but my point holds true in many other instances: the biggest problem with American cars lies not in the product, but in the marketing. I think it's high time we stopped dismissing American automobiles as inefficient and aknowledged the very real advances they've made.

Not to mention that the VW Jetta won Green Car of the Year!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27825003/

The author left out the VW Jetta with the diesel engine: 30 city / 41 hwy. As a side note, Ford Fiesta with a diesel engine gets 65+ mpg highway; alas, Ford has no plans to bring this engine to the US.

I'm tired of the argument that the Big 3 don't build stylish vehicles -- all of these vehicles are boring (Camry is ok) and their not cheap either! I've only owned American cars and have rarely need service on my vehicle. When I do, they treat me like a queen. Keep buying foreign and pretty soon we'll make the same wages as 3rd world countries!

Stratojet needs to take his two college degrees and do some reading...find out where Ford and Chrysler and GM send out engines and parts to be made...

My Ford Focus averages between 34-38 mpg. combined! I agree with the rest of you out there. These idiot's are bias. What's more my Focus is comfortible and quiet and cost me under $13,000. Beat that!

BTW Who's picking these cars? Secretaries and people who design Barbie dolls?

I am sick of this import-centric garbage! Where's the Chevy Cobalt, Chevy HHR, Pontiac G5, the Mercury Milan, the Ford Focus, the Ford Fusion, the Chevy Malibu. Another import-biased list of Japanese cars. I drove a Nissan Versa as a rental a while back... bad idea...it rode like a prarie schooner, had barely adequate power if you put your foot on the floor, and to be quite honest, the mileage, even without your foot on the floor was not that impressive.

Our fellow countrymen are suffering terribly with the layoffs in the domestic auto industry, that built my 253,000 mile (and going strong) Ford Thunderbird, and my 180,000 mile Dodge Intrepid (battered with body damage and still going strong).

I don't care what the MBAs say, too many people are suffering out here in the midwest via decisions made in glass palaces (like Newsweek's Headquarters, and the accountants making car decisions) that are no fault of their own. How about some mercy for THEM for a change. Their products are as good as many of the ones here, and are never featured.... and believe me, it's not just YOU, it's like GM, Ford and Chrysler are cursed by their own country.

Wake up america, if they go down, the midwest goes too.... look at the layoffs going on right now.
I don't work in the auto industry, I'm not a union member, I have a white collar job, two college degrees, and I can spot heinous bias when I see it.

Surprise Surprise -- no American cars are on the list.

This list is silly. My Toyota Camry hybrid gets better real world mileage than at least six or seven of the cars listed. Sorry, credibility rating = zero.

A word to the wise: Buy a Geo Metro before the you-know-what hits the fan!!

Look at the gas shortages down south... It may be a temporary inconvenience this year, but what about in years to come? Sooner or later, gas is going to become so scarce, long lines at the pump will be standard fare, and when you finally get to the pump - paying for that scarce gas is gonna be a killer.
My 1997 Geo Metro gets 46 miles per gallon in the city, and about 58 - 60mpg on the highway, (depending on how fast I go, and headwind.) It's a 3 cylinder, 1.0 liter, manual transmission - the most efficient Geo there is. I love this little car! I keep up with traffic just fine, too. These cars have a lot of pep, and when the light turns green, it accelerates just as well as the bigger vehicles around me. I fill it up for about $25.00 and go forever!
I don't give a damn if people in their humongous gas guzzlers laugh at me in my little car. I think they're all morons's who, for vanity's sake, get "hosed" at the pump: "Goodness, what would the Jones's think if I didn't drive around in a gas-guzzling luxury car?" Idiots! Who cares?? The Jones's can go to hell in a handbasket labelled "bankruptcy." The writing is on the wall: Gas is never going to be cheap again. I have a better place to put all that money that would have gone to the pump - it's called "a savings account."
A couple of years ago, I looked long and hard at buying a Toyota Prius, but ultimately realized it wasn't going to save me money any time soon! $20,000 plus? Ouch. I don't envy Prius owners... The computers tend to go out on them, and they're hell of expensive to fix. Now we're starting to hear reports that the batteries in them are starting to make people sick somehow. Time will tell if that's true or not, I guess.
I was really disappointed with this article... Honestly, I am not at all impressed by anything that gets less than 38mpg in the city. This article didn't list the truly most efficient cars at all. It sounded more like a sales pitch for manufacturers who undoubtedly pay a premium for advertising in Newsweek, than an attempt to accurately inform their readers. What a shame.
As Americans, we need to start showing the independence this country was founded on, and yank the money rug right out from under the foreign countries (most of whom despise us) that we depend on to maintain our lifestyle. We all need to think smart, think thrift, think small!! The easist place to start? Downsize your car! You'll be thrilled with your savings, and you can laugh at all the ninnywits who feel they must bleed at the pump in order to look successful. I'd much rather look smart!

The Bush Depression

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit.Bush created a national debt larger then the first 42 presidents combined
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why isnt obama 25 points ahead
The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.
Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

31 states are voting now, dont wait
Elect Obama Biden 2008




Check out this video of sarah palins interview before you vote


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

The Bush Depression

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit.Bush created a national debt larger then the first 42 presidents combined
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why isnt obama 25 points ahead
The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.
Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

31 states are voting now, dont wait
Elect Obama Biden 2008




Check out this video of sarah palins interview before you vote


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

The era of everybody owning their own car is soon to pass!

Don't agree? Go to Brooklyn NYC at 11 pm.

BTW my Jetta has great acceleration at 60 and 70.

Some Ford ad on TV brags about its hybrid getting 35 MPG

I do not own VW stock but I get 47 MPG

If I drove at 60 with no A/C, I'd get 50+ mpg or better