Ford Focus
Both the four-door-sedan and five-door-hatchback body styles of the compact 2012 Ford Focus will get 40 miles per gallon. They also come loaded with features never found on Detroit's old econoboxes. The key, however, is that Ford expects to keep the price down by building more than 2 million of what is basically the same car around the world in plants in the U.S., China and Europe.

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