They remind me of the big dumb jock from high school…..he was very good for some thing at one point in time….but now that a few years have passed….what excellent is he?

Recently Edmunds.com published a story about the leading 10 most efficient 4-door cars available. They ranked the cars based on EPA fuel economy numbers. And would you guess that not one auto from an American manufacturer produced the list!

With gas costs on the never-ending rise…..it’s clear that foreign automakers have their finger on the pulse of the automobile purchasing world.

Do American auto firms just not care about what customers want?

We do know that there are domestic hybrids out there……such as: the Ford Escape, Saturn Vue, and Chevy Silverado. But these are not cars at all!!!!!! They are SUV’s and Trucks. It appears that American auto makers have decided to take aim at areas outside the hybrid auto marketplace.

So the Japanese have such a stranglehold on the hybrid car market, and the massive American manufacturers won’t even give it a try. Actually Saturn does have Aura and that’s about it!! But now there is hope on the horizon…..

The Chevy Malibu Hybrid is coming out late this year. Horary for all you Bow Tie fans out there. But wait….just how great is the Malibu Hybrid….well according to the EPA 27 MPG is the average you can anticipate to get out of this vehicle. That is completely hilarious….my Nissan Sentra which is 8 years old, tops that number by three MPG and I don’t even practice gas saving driving.

But what about Ford all the Blue Oval fans out there shout? Nope…sorry…Ford doesn’t make a hybrid auto. But the Escape hybrid SUV gets 32 MPG which is still much better than the Malibu hybrid.

So 9 out of the 10 most fuel efficient sedans come from Japanese auto makers. The tenth comes from Kia. Kia……a business that is tiny compared to the huge American Automakers. The future does not look very good for domestic vehicles.

Of course the reigning champions are still there…..the Civic hybrid, the Prius hybrid, and the Camry hybrid are all on the list. The fascinating factor is that 6 of the 10 most fuel efficient 4 door cars are not hybrids at all. They are tiny gasoline powered cars such as the Corolla.

Fuel Efficient Sedans…….Not A Domestic Insight!!!!!

This information was gathered from:

http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/list/top10/125477/write-up.html

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