40 mpg is what my 15 year old Toyota starlet got on average. I have towed a stacked Prindle 16 and Prindle 18 behind that car and it would still do 120 km/h quite comfortably (75 mph). I think I still got 30 MPG driving like that.

The bloody thing was roomy enough to transport 2.50 mtr long sailbags and booms inside. I also transported landyachts on the roof rack lots of times.

And it was quick of the line in city traffic. 65 hp/105 NM on a 800 kg car (1750 lbs) will do that.

I loved that car to bits and it was all 1993 low cost and low maintaince technology.

Funk the hybrids ! Bring back the old design starlets ! (the starlet models from 1998 onwards are not as good, to much weird round styling makign the inside space akward for transporting stuff and the standard power steering funked up the steering)

Wouter