8 Red Hot Small Cars

Gas was $1.89 when Obama was elected! Good job Dumb-Ass!

oddly in the 80s there was 3 or more models that were actually capable of 50 mpg..
30 years later somehow "34 miles per gallon" is suppose to be impressive according to some commercials.

Where is the technology today, where ALL cars SHOULD be getting 75-150 mpg by now? Patented technology owned by big oil (search Pogue Carburetor from the 1930's!!!) produced 200 mpg! My uncle made one of his own versions of this called the "stewpot carburetor", and installed it into a Chevy 308 engine, from an early 70's truck getting 12 mpg and heated the gas in a crude pan, then burned the vapor. He more than doubled his mpg to the upper 20's! Are you telling me that 30 years later, we are still getting that kind of mpg from our cars and trucks, and that's if we're lucky???

Come on; let's have a NATIONAL CHALLENGE, with a $25,000,000.00 mil prize for the inventor of a viable 100-200 mpg carburetor right now, that could be retrofitted onto most vehicles! Could you imagine what kind of response and inventions would come forth?
Come on America, this is the way to go. Let’s burn all the gas in a gallon, not just 5-8% of it, and the benefits will be a WIN-WIN-WIN situation! The environment, the consumer and the world would all come out ahead!

Umm...diesel? Biproduct of gasoline refining and nowadays, is cleaner than petroleum based engines. Oil changes are spanned nearly as long, don't need to rev them nearly as high for reasonable power, more durable, last longer, more fun to play with, more practical (torque torque torque!), and better mileage by 20 - 40% depending on the car. So, we consume the "unusable" waste from oil refining, spit less emissions into the atmosphere, don't rely in electric cars which will just start brudening our power grid more and burn MORE fossil fuels such as coal from our burning stations, and have our cars last longer. 400,000 miles on a diesel is easy as long as you take care of it. How does a 65MPG Ford Focus sound and still has approximately the same power as all of these cars listed. Wake up America, diesel is NOT your enemy.

This is just another reason I ride a motorcycle......a BIG motorcycle!

Where's the price and mileage info on the Fit?

This is so sad - I still get 38-48 MPG from my 1995 Geo Metro (3 Cylinder). Why don't they just make more Metros? I commute 60 mikes daily and have taken it on numerous roadtrips (1 for 9000) miles. No frills metros would be SNAPPED up.

And hey, where are all the electric cars they have been promising us??? I don't see them at the showrooms!

All well and good if you are 5' 9"" or shorter.

You can buy a lot of gas for 16,500 dollars,so think before you run out to buy a new down sized automobile.

We MUST have more diesel autos and soon. Change the 25 y/o laws, congress and stop making the manufacturers pay so much for compliance!!! With more mpg, you won't have so much trouble raising the taxes on fuel (the real cure for making us more energy efficient).
Oh, and my kid drives a Golf, loves it, and he's 6'4" and 185!!! Plenty of room

I don't think of the Ford Focus as a "tiny ride!" Used in many car rentals in Europe, there is good mileage and plenty of room!

Electric cars cost much more and it will take you 7 years to recover the savings in gas. At this time, electric cars are not a good deal... car dealers think consumers are stupid.... and the electric car actually costs less to produce, so why is it priced higher? Car dealers need to lower the prices of electric cars and they'll be more appealing. You can actually save money and gas, if they lowered the prices to what a motorized vehicle costs.

Where's the Yugo?..........lol

how many of these cars are made in the usa

Didn't see the Nissan Versa. In our opinion it's better than the Honda Fit. It's roomier inside, drove better, had better combo of engines and trans to choose from. No problems after a year.

2011 ford fiesta,,48 mpg in warm weather,$18,000 out the dr,,elec cars,,$40-50,000 do the math,,where does elec come from,,coal ,nuclear,nat gas,some hydro elec

It's a pity Americans have this prejudice against diesel cars. Diesel gets better mileage and the engines last longer. My son had a diesel VW in 2000 that got over 50 MPG. And if you factor in the mpg, it doesn't pollute any more than gasoline, I believe. I had a 1986 Buick LeSaber that got over 31 mpg. They act like that's good mileage today. Looks like engineers could have improved on that for big cars in the last 24 years.

Focus was rated highest in its class for performance, quality of parts, expected reliability and joy to drive by Car and Driver.

Why does yahoo always snub Nissan?? They make some of the best quality vehicles, yet yahoo never mentions them. The Sentra/Altima are some of the best cars for the money on the market (in my opinion).