Also selling well are such gas sippers as the VW Jetta and the Hyundai Elantra.

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The relative fuel costs of gas-sippers and plugins would hit parity long before the whole country adopts them.

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Critics beat up Detroit for building SUVs and pickups (which earn profits) and scrimping on fuel-sippers (which don't).

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The town clings to the Czech border, where sweet-beer drinkers are replaced by pilsner sippers, car makers give way to glass artisans.

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Where once manufacturers could boost their fleet average mpg by adding a couple of fuel-sippers to their lineup, now every vehicle must meet a government target.

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The strong showing of conventional vehicles in the top twelve is a testament to how serious manufacturers have gotten about recasting these vehicles as fuel-sippers with transmission refinements, weight savings, and sophisticated internal combustion engines.

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