Originally Posted by dmclone 
The big 3 are always so behind everyone else. When they were making all this money on SUV's they should have been working on some good small cars. For all that hard work they now have the following.
Chevy Aveo (See Yugo)
Ford Focus (Decent)
Dodge Neon (wasn't that good 13 years ago and hasn't changed much since.)
Way to go!!!!!!!!!!! All three struggle to get 30mpg.
First, are you talking compacts or subcompacts? If it's compacts, you should be discussing the Chevy Cobalt, not the Aveo.
Second, Dodge stopped making the Neon 4 years ago - their compact vehicle is now the Caliber.
Finally, considering a Honda Civic only does 25/36 (
link) while a Chevy Cobalt is capable of doing 25/36 (
link) and Ford Focus does 24/35 (
link), your last statement is quite ridiculous as well. It's not that I'm so totally in love with the Big 3 - it's just come up with a valid argument instead of libelous, unresearched statements...
(your argument does hold for Caliber, however - it only does 24/29 (
link))
