That is the reason we bought a Hyundai Veloster (6 speed manual transmission); gets up to 47 mpg on trips and runs about 30-35 mpg in city. Its now 2 years old and just fine with us- We have a truck and it gets 17 mpg -20 mpg unless we hook the trailer up. So the Hubs drives my little car back and forth to work, and the truck sits. Which is fine saves us $$$ on fuel (3.65 a gallon here). Doubt if its ever really gonna go down to the fuel prices when I started driving of .35 per gallon, or if the price of a car will ever go down either.