Originally Posted by wilthrill

Well not to be a conspiracy guy or whatever but can anyone answer the following question.

As I said above in my first post in 1985 aka OVER TWENTY YEARS AGO there were at least three models of cars that got over FIFTY miles to the gallon and WERE NOT hybrids etc.
The technology is over twenty years old!!!!

Given the current gas prices why hasn't even ONE car company come out with a basic car that got over fifty miles per gallon (or at least re-release the cars that did twenty years ago) and price it fairly low????

Sure it wouldn't be a "family" car because it would be too small but a hell of a lot of commuters might be interested in it as a drive-to-work vehicle. They'd sell a lot of cars so why hasn't ANY of them jumped on the opportunity?