Quote Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary View Post
Just before all this started I bought a Ford Escape hybrid. It runs on battery (charged by the engine and the brakes) at certain speeds and some weeks I get as much as 41 miles to the gallon. I consistently get around 35. That is the kind of cars the US auto industry needs to concentrate on making.
I had thought about getting a hybrid before, but I don't have a garage and park on the street. The fact that anything not nailed down gets stolen around here, I can imagine having to plug something in wouldn't work really well. The kids would steal whatever it was just to be brats.

I have a Nissan Versa, which has a CVT engine from Renault, and I get about 35-40 miles highway and about 31-34 miles in the city. It's the base model now for Nissan, making the Sentra a step above it. They are both fantastic cars as far as mileage and all that goes. Not the prettiest cars, but that doesn't really matter to me at this point.