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27/11/2008 05:41. Many car shoppers have adopted the perspective bigger is not better. Even my college-age daughter, not always the most practical shopper, has decided her first car should be a hybrid or a very gas-efficient model.

As a consumer and parent who usually who pays my daughters gas bill, her thinking is applauded and appreciated. Even with gas taking a much needed downward turn, prices are still high enough that gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles are... // Weekly Driver