Not a deterioration in living standards that moves Earl out of his SUV and into a compact car.
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However, as uncomfortable a feeling as it was, I knew deep inside that a compact car was the right decision for us.
In Japan the March, a compact car with e-mail capabilities, became the first to be built using a common chassis with Renault.
We had reserved a compact car, a cost effective option we knew would not only be fuel-efficient but also easily meet our minimal space requirements.
CX-5 come to mind because they have SUV cargo space within a compact-car footprint.
There was a compact-car-size mound of drugs already piled beyond the first target berm.
If everybody just needed a little compact car that sat two people, I mean, they would be buying them.
The body design includes a rigid-mounted battery frame, which helps provide greater body rigidity compared to a conventional compact car.
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The vision for the tiny car was first dreamed up by Swatch CEO Nicholas Hayek who began developing his concept in the late 1980s to make a small compact car that functioned like the Swatch watch.
Next year Ford will offer a new Focus compact car in Europe, with a one-litre, three-cylinder engine that performs as well as the 1.6 litre, four-cylinder engine it replaces, yet uses about 20% less fuel.
No other compact economy car outside of a Mini Cooper offers as much stick-and-rudder fun as the 3: The steering (hydraulic, with an electric pump) is tack-sharp and precise, with almost no torque steer and a gratifying heft that gathers as you turn the wheel.
Compact GPS jammers that run from a car are available to buy, although use is prohibited.
Now, of course, everything is relative, and my test car is a 2.0-liter, front-drive compact with an automatic transmission on all-season meats, so it's not remotely a sports car.
The year 2010 will also see vehicle breakthroughs, like the plug-in Chevrolet Volt and the Chevy Cruze, a zippy, fuel-efficient compact that will usher in a new era of global efficiency in small-car product development.
Wang Chuanfu, BYD chairman, expects one out of every five Chinese alternative-energy vehicles sold around the world to be a BYD, he said at the improved F3 compact car launch in Beijing in August.
Later this year, it will introduce a compact Buick, the Verano, and an even smaller car, the Chevrolet Sonic.
The tiny Massachusetts island is compact enough so that visitors do not need a car and most arrive without one, yet it creates the illusion of being much bigger since so much is preserved as protected natural space.
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Shopping for a new car in November, he took a cursory look at a Mercedes but wound up buying a BMW 335 compact sports sedan instead.
In Brazil, the automaker hopes to double the sales in the next two years with the help of a new manufacturing plant that will kick off production of its compact car Etios in September.
The Dodge division unveiled its new compact car, the Dart, which will vie for a share of the roughly one million in annual segment sales.
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In particular, if you look at a Dodge Caliber that just came out, we call that an entry-level compact car.
Ford said the first car to use the new technology in Europe would be the EcoSport, a compact SUV expected to go on sale this year.
We gather our luggage and our four small children, and make our way to the compact compartment fitted with two seats and a washbasin that will be our bedroom, dining car and playroom for the next ten-or-so hours as our train pushes south through the night towards Luxor.
What is more, he has been making a profit in one of the most fiercely contested parts of the automobile market, the European compact-car segment.
Mr. Dodge added that he wants the car, which is made at a Nissan plant in Mexico, to grab 10% of the compact market "within two to three years, " up from the high single-digit percentages currently.
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