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The focus styleFord focus is a decent car and good value, especially the SVT version, but how can the car be considered a 10Best with the numerous recalls in the past few years? According to the Center for Auto Safety, it has nine safety recalls and six more issues being investigated. The selections are based primarily on the things that are right about a car’s design, not the things that might go wrong during ownership. The focus provides an unusually elevated degree of driving refinement and interior utility for a car in its price range. continue reading…

The steering column3It makes no sense to single out SUVs as fuel wasters in the first place, but why single out motor vehicles at all? Why is driving a Ford Explorer somehow worse than air-conditioning a 10,000-square-foot house or heating an outdoor swimming pool or flying in a Learjet 31A that gets less than 3 mpg and carries no more people than a Cadillac Escalade would?

If we as Americans develop a national consensus to reduce our oil consumption for whatever reason—political, environmental, and financial—we should establish a policy that provides an continue reading…