Pleasant and Pennywise

Fuel economy champions
Here's a roundup of five recently tested vehicles that are both pleasant to drive and pennywise at the pump.

The editors of Consumer Guide Automotive make their way through more than 200 new vehicles a year. Explore our site and you'll see that we drive virtually everything that's street-legal, except motorcycles. Actually, some of us do ride motorcycles, we just don't write about them.

With the national average price for a gallon of gas cresting over $4.00, public attention has turned to cars and trucks that travel the furthest on a tank of fuel.

Apropos to the times, we've recently sampled a few vehicles that made being frugal a relatively painless experience. These vehicles range from gasoline-electric hybrids, to diesel-powered vehicles, to just plain frugal 4-cylinders. Here's a quick summary of five cars and trucks that take the sting out of stinginess

05.21.2008