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Highest gas mileage? List shows today's cars can't match old ones
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Jun 15, 2010 06:58pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It was only a couple of years ago that gasoline prices peaked at more than $4 a gallon. Even though prices receded, few doubt that high-priced gas could eventually be with us again. In light of that, you'd think that the landscape would be filled today with 40-mile-per-gallon cars. Well, it isn't.
The surprise comes from a list the Environmental Protection Agency put together of the most fuel-efficient vehicles in the past 25 years. Few are from today. Most are from many years ago. For all the talk today about hybrids, electrics and greater fuel efficiency from conventional engines, the list underscores how little progress we've actually made toward weaning ourselves off oil.
No wonder that hyper-milers like Louis Hudgin of Gilbert, Ariz., pictured above with his decade-old Honda Insight hybrid, were driving old cars like Hudgin's 2001 Honda Insight when we interviewed them a couple years ago. Modern cars didn't get as much mileage as the older ones, a big problem for those who squeeze as many mpgs out of every gallon of gas as Hudgin's does. Hudgin was routinely getting more than 100 mpg.
Granted, a lot of those high mpg cars of yore were pretty lousy. In the past, it was uninspiring cars like the Geo Metro and Chevy Sprint leading the gas mileage race, making a 2010 Toyota Prius look like a luxury car in comparison.
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