$40g's put it out of the price range of many....BUT it's a great starting block!!! It's the correct direction!

True, but the other gas savers are increasing in price too. But I'm hearing the Volt will be around low to mid 30's due to fed breaks on the car.

That's good to hear!!

I rented a 2008 Ford Focus for a trip to Cleveland a while back. I was impressed by the car both the performance and the seating/leg room/interior. I got just shy of 40mpg (rated for 35mpg on the highway) round trip from Detroit to Cleveland. On the way there I took the turnpike and the way home I took 2 lane roads through the small towns. Very nice car.

I then followed it with a 2007 Ford Focus rental to Chicago. OMG what a difference in cars. I only got 32mpg on this one and the fit finish and comfort levels were well below the the new 2008 Focus.

Hey!!! Thanks for posting the Ford numbers! I knew the older Focus was terrible in almost all categories. Glad to hear the new ones are competitors!!!!!

The old Focus was on its last legs in many ways, but when I was testing new cars, I was impressed with what they had done. I seriously considered one instead of my Taurus, but it was a case of one need outweighing the other. They are trading my work Dakota in on a GM crew cab. Actually, my truck will go to another department that needs a better road/light duty truck to replace their 3/4 ton. They did not feel good about replacing a 3/4 ton with anything smaller. I would have been real happy to get a Escape hybrid for what we needed. It would have been an ideal solution for campus.

Friend is a service manager at a Ford dealer and he claims they can't keep the new focus in stock. Now if they could only hold any resale compared to a Honda or Toyota

It is not going to hurt Ford any that the Escape is a top pick for safety in the report released today.