Originally Posted by
infecto
Actually a new Ford gets around 65mpg. Of course its only European based because its a diesel engine.
Bring it to the US, and I'll be all over it. For a while I figured if I were forced to buying a new car it'd be something like a VW Golf TDI. But A) I found out that VW's QC is pretty miserable these days and they have an above average failure rate, and anyway B) they stopped importing diesel cars about that time.
Anyway, when I'm only putting about 4000 miles a year on my car, and it gets 26 MPG (Ford Taurus) or 24 MPG (if I'm driving the Windstar) there's not really all that much incentive for me to buy a different new car to sit in the driveway all day depreciating.