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.
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.
In particular, if you look at a Dodge Caliber that just came out, we call that an entry-level compact car.
In Japan the March, a compact car with e-mail capabilities, became the first to be built using a common chassis with Renault.
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.
Nissan's best-selling domestic car, the compact Note car, imports about 45% to 50% of the parts used to build the vehicle at its factory in southern Japan.
Joachim Schmidt, global head of sales and marketing for Mercedes, says until batteries get cheaper and lighter, Mercedes will respond to demand for exhaust-free cars (and California clean-car mandates) with small vehicles such as the tiny electric Smart and the compact B-Class, and offer plug-in hybrid versions of its larger models, including the S-class sedan.
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.
But at Ford, new product development marketing manager Lew Echlin says the company plans to shrink the number of free-floating options available on its Focus compact car lineup for the 2013 model year because the numbers say it makes sense.
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The Cruze represents the new breed of conventional compact and midsize sedans that brands are launching to raise average new-car efficiency to 35 mpg by 2016, and to 54.5 mpg by 2025, as required by federal rules.
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.
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.
The cheapest-to-insure car that meets those criteria was determined to be the Audi A3 compact hatchback, followed closely by stalwarts like the Honda Accord, Ford Taurus and Subaru Forester.
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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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.
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