Their excellent gas mileage and even their improved interior design notwithstanding, today's compact cars simply fail to provide the feel a traditional motorist yearns for.

尽管它们续航表现出色，甚至内部设计得到改观，但今天的紧凑型汽车根本不能提供传统汽车驾驶者所渴望的感觉。

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Most foreign automakers are rolling out compact cars from their Indian plants.

绝大多数外国汽车公司在印度设厂，生产的大多是小型汽车。

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But the percent of compact cars sold in May was 20.3%, up over 15.8% in May last year.

但是5月的小型车销售量占20.3%，超过去年同期15.8%。

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All the cars exported from India were compact cars produced by global automakers such as Suzuki and Hyundai.

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But as worldwide demand for compact cars began growing due to rising fuel costs and stricter controls on emissions, manufacturers began to export cars from India.

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Yogendra Pratap, editor of Auto Bild India, says automakers first began making compact cars in India to cater to a booming domestic market, where three out of four cars sold are small cars.

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But smaller, compact cars also did well, despite the recent easing of gasoline prices.

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Compact cars, meanwhile, comprised 1.2% of GM's output, down from 6.4% the previous quarter.

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California has been a leader in promoting hybrids and compact cars and cleaner-burning fuels.

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