These have been priorities of mine since I got to the Senate, and it is absolutely critical that we develop a high fuel efficient car that's built not in Japan and not in South Korea, but built here in the United States of America.
And, yes, choosing a more fuel-efficient car can indeed be a significant cost-saving measure.
The redesigned Explorer, with new engines and a more fuel-efficient car chassis rather than a truck platform, promises to deliver a 30% improvement in gas mileage.
You say, it's going to be more expensive for you if you've got a less fuel-efficient car.
And everybody drives Hummers until finally gas gets so crazy and at a certain point people start saying maybe I should get a more fuel-efficient car.
The good deed, along with a promise to share fuel-efficient small car technology, earned Fiat a 20 percent stake in Chrysler under a government-brokered bankruptcy reorganization.
And, of course, a hybrid or fuel-efficient car emits less carbon dioxide than an SUV.
For years, it has raced ahead of the Premier Padmini, a roomier but relatively unwieldy and less fuel-efficient car modeled on a 1951 Fiat, and the Fiat Uno, which sold only 8, 500 units in the past year.
And a flood of more fuel-efficient, car-based crossovers will turn heads in 2006.
Ford thinks it may have a hit on its hands with its forthcoming Edge crossover, a sleek car-based and relatively fuel-efficient sport utility.
And this is a point I want to emphasize: If you buy a car, your investment in a more fuel-efficient vehicle as a result of this standard will pay off in just three years.
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Incentive backed challenges attract "maverick thinkers who challenge normal assumptions" and make heroes of the teams who compete in these paradigm-changing efforts to solve significant social problems like building the ultimate fuel-efficient car or developing a lunar landing vehicle.
The year 2010 will also see vehicle breakthroughs, like the plug-in Chevrolet Volt and the Chevy Cruze, a zippy, fuel-efficient compact that will usher in a new era of global efficiency in small-car product development.
Apart from developing more fuel efficient engines, the mileage of a car can be boosted by reducing the car weight.
But Jeep needs to win back the suburbanites who have spent the last decade defecting to a newer batch of car-like, fuel-efficient competitors like the Chevrolet Equinox and Toyota RAV4.
And Li Shufu, chairman of Zhejiang Geely told reporters Wednesday at a legislative session that electric-car subsidies should be expanded to fuel-efficient cars, including hybrids.
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But after some tough sledding, the auto industry seems poised for a rebound, and car makers are pulling out all the stops to create fuel-efficient, fun-to-drive, attractive and affordable vehicles.
We had reserved a compact car, a cost effective option we knew would not only be fuel-efficient but also easily meet our minimal space requirements.
If you're renting a car, Mullis and Spatrisano both recommend hybrid- or energy-efficient fuel vehicles, although they acknowledge that these can be hard to find in many locations.
This follows a trend where automakers are replacing robust, truck-based SUVs with lighter, more fuel-efficient, car-based crossovers.
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Johnson would like to see a single CAFE standard rather than two separate ones, as cars overseas are more fuel efficient and then the car companies could count their good miles per gallon European cars with their gas guzzling American trucks.
Hybrids need to be equipped with larger battery packs, smaller and more fuel-efficient engines and a "two-mode system" that uses a pair of electric motors that propel the car at lower speeds.
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