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What is the Best Fuel Efficient Car?
The efficiency of a car varies with the type of car it is there is 11 types of cars (listed below)
- sub compact
- compact
- intermediate
- full-size
- compact pick up
- full size pick up
- compact utility
- intermediate utility
- full size utility
- mini van
- full size van
The government rated top fuel efficient car is the 2000 Honda insight its a 3 cylinder, 1.
0 liter, 5 speed manual transmission.
It gets 49 city 61 highway and 53 combined The research done by real people driving real cars shows that a 2006 Honda Insight its a 3 cylinder, 1.
0 liter, 5 speed manual transmission it takes the cake with 52 MPG highway 91 MPG and combined 72.
7 MPG.
The average persons car will not get anywhere close to these two cars MPG and there is a simple reason why most cars driven today are gas powered engines these two cars are hybrids meaning they are ran off a electric engine which draws its power from a battery bank located some where in the car and they have small 3 cylinder generators that start while your driving and recharge the battery bank.
The average persons car will get around 24.
7 MPG and some of the reasons its like are very simple like the fact just sitting in traffic with a gas powered engine VS.
a hybrid when you sit in traffic and your car or truck is idling your MPG drops to 0 while a hybrid is electrically powered so it doesn't idle and it doesn't waste gas.
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