Cars with Best Gas Mileage

Honda’s Insight may not be as frugal as a Toyota Prius, but it’s better through corners, writes JEZ SPINKS. Honda Insight hybrid 2009 Honda Insight hybrid Video Gallery Toyota’s Prius has become such an iconic flagbearer for the hybrid car that few will remember Honda was the first car... Drive.com - News: Honda aims to make Insight hybrid affordable Financial Times - Toyota scales back loss forecast The Detroit News - New...  

The $3 billion 'cash for clunkers' program mostly involved swaps of old Ford or Chevy pickups for new ones that got only marginally better gas mileage -- between 1 and 3 mpg better than the older trucks. Buyers were 17 times more likely to get a new F150 than, say, a Toyota Prius.  

Last week, we ran our latest Mileage Challenge featuring four ultra-fuel-efficient cars, and before that we rounded up six fuel-sippers to see which one was the best daily driver. But none of these reports put a brutal, real-life morning and...  

New Prius offers better mileage and zipPhiladelphia InquirerThat marvelous mileage puts the Prius at the top of the hybrid heap, beating out the Honda Civic Hybrid (42 mpg), the Honda Insight (41), the Ford Fusion ...Hybrids stay popular even after gas prices fall lowerBarre Montpelier Times ArgusMercury adds some spark to Milan HybridNew Haven Register (subscription)Contest puts hybrid hype to a testDuluth News Tribune (registration)all 4...  

Photo: Flickr, CC Battle of the Hybrids: Prius Narrowly Beats Honda Insight It's not just Japanese consumers that seem to like the new Toyota Prius (we wrote about the huge increase in sales). The jurors for the Japan Car of the Year award also selected the hybrid, though it was a close race compared to the previous 30 editions; the Honda Insight finished in second place with 391 points (co...Read the full story on TreeHugger  

Ask a Toyota or Honda executive how much their respective companies make per hybrid car and you’re unlikely to get a straight answer. Indeed, it was progress of sorts a couple of years back when Toyota began saying that the Prius, which debuted in ...  

There's a little something extra for car buyers who have their hearts set on top fuel mileage in the Toyota Prius. But they'd better not get tired of the car's wedge shape. The world's best-selling gasoline-electric hybrid car is out for 2010 with...  

Hyundai says a local rival for the Prius is on the company’s wish list. By BRUCE NEWTON. Hyundai Elantra Hybrid Hyundai Australia is looking at importing a stand-alone petrol electric hybrid model to compete with Toyota’s Prius and Honda’s Insight. The company has set its sights on selling... The Motor Report - 2010 Toyota Hybrid Camry: More Images, More Details  

Filed under: Ethanol, MPG, Green Daily, Racing NASCAR has already gone solar and wants to help you (not themselves) use less fuel, but the cold hard reality is that those ovals are being made in cars that get around five miles per gallon. Not exactly hybrid SUV territory there. So, to reduce the amount of fossil fuels used in each race, race organizers are looking to maybe - maybe - using alternative fuels in the some of the cars. Before...  

Filed under: Hybrid, Manufacturing/Plants, Toyota, Green Daily, Japan 2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery Lots of automakers make cars and trucks, no surprises there. Some even make other interesting things, like Honda, which also builds motorcycles, jets, robots and solar cells. But we can't think of any car companies that develop their own species of flowers, save for Toyota, which uses two derivatives of the cherry...  

We test America's most fuel-frugal cars. We took the Audi A3 TDI, Toyota Prius V, Smart Fortwo Passion, Honda Insight Ex Navi and Ford Fusion Hybrid on mileage tests to see which ones perform best on city streets, desert highways and twisty back roads.  

Toyota is currently running a national print ad promoting the company's future eco-friendly technologies. As you would expect, it pictures a Toyota Prius glistening by a tree-lined lake, and brags about the fuel and CO2 saved by hybrid technology. The ad copy says that Toyota's current hybrids are "paving the way for the next generation of environmental vehicles." And then these five words: "Like cars charged at home." Sounds innocent enough...  

The 2010 Toyota Prius is again the most fuel-efficient performer in the U.S. market, at 50 mpg Combined, while runners-up include the 2010 Honda Civic Hybrid (42 mpg), Honda Insight (41), Ford Fusion Hybrid (39), and Mercury Milan Hybrid (39). That's the official word from the 2010 EPA Fuel Economy Guide information, which was released this ..  

Filed under: Motorsports NASCAR has already gone solar and wants to help you (not themselves) use less fuel, but the cold hard reality is that those ovals are being made in cars that get around five miles per gallon. Not exactly hybrid SUV territory there. So, to reduce the amount of fossil fuels used in each race, race organizers are looking at maybe - just maybe - using alternative fuels in some of the cars. Before NASCAR gets that ca-razy...