[Cialug] OT: safe/reliable fuel-efficient cars.

[David Champion]

I've always been very happy with Honda products. My '00 Acura Integra 
GS-R (which is just a factory riced out Civic) gets between 29 to 33 
mpg, and that's mostly in town. Plus it puts out 170hp from a 1.8L 
naturally aspirated engine, with an 8000 rpm redline (some people don't 
like the fast revving buzzy engine, I love it). It's a lot of fun to 
drive, and with snow tires it gets around very well in the winter.

The new Civic Si has even better performance numbers. The main thing I 
don't like is they don't make a Civic hatch for the US market any more. 
The Fit has a nice big hatch, but it's not really a performance car.

-dc

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Elantra is a great car.  I know there are a lot of weird physics involved in an accident but the truck that hit us and the ford focus we hit both came away - at least looking - pretty well, I'm thinking about something a little bigger.
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> The prices have also gone up.  I think mine was around 11K in early 04 .  It wouldn't surprise me if I could get a lot better deal in this economy though. 
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> I now there are trade-offs between economy and performance but I wouldn't mind something a little more robust too.  I was just wondering what other people have and are happy with to try to reconcile my performance-efficiency tradeoff and newfound concern for safety.
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> I will probably end up back at the Hyundai dealership and the Honda dealership at some point.  Thinking about Subaru too. 
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