>Wound up buying a Chevrolet Aveo (made by Daewoo in Korea with a Chevy name sticker) and a Kia Spectra 5. Both get better than 30MPG and I can fit in them. Bonus was that both were very inexpensive!
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>This weekend we are trading in the Aveo for a Toyota Prius. It doe not have the headroom I need but my wife will make good use of close to 50MPG.

These small cheap fake (that's irony) Chevrolet's are selling at there too. I know big Chevrolet's from my child years. All of korean Chevrolet's are really bad cars. I prefer japan or european (expecially german) cars. You would be choose Toyota Yaris/Auris or Volkswagen Polo/Golf for your wife.

My car is an italian car. It's not as good as a german car but better than koreans.

>If US automakers survive long enough to make sensible cars again, we'll buy them. Until then, we buy what makes sense.

I don't behave patriotic when buy something. I know one of turkish businessman who builds cars has a rollys royce.

Look at that giant Vogayer's test:

http://www.euroncap.com/tests/chrysler_voyager_2007/277.aspx

and that small Fiat 500's test:

http://www.euroncap.com/tests/fiat_500_2007/298.aspx

That's not just about gas.

Actually these are not matter. I believe in that in next 50-100 years there will not any personal car left. Biogas is not a solution. Because even all fields of the world would be used for biogas that will not enough.