So 30-40us mpg on a small turbodiesel... that's still quite respectable if you can get that from a midsized car.

A midsized car is $738 for two weeks, with 1,400 free miles and 35 cents for each additional mile, plus a $250 dropoff fee.

Ford's lineup includes two hits: the Mustang and the Fusion, one of three midsized cars that the company rolled out in the last year.

For a midsized car, that is something of a steal.

On top of that, they remain bogged down in brutally competitive markets for midsized and small cars.

To qualify for the proposed $3,000 tax credit, a midsized car would have to get about 45 miles a gallon.

It is a slimmed-down, sleek sedan with the looks of a midsized Japanese car.

The latest evidence of this is the 2000-model I30, the second generation of Infiniti's midsized car.

Safety experts said that the vehicle weighed twice as much as a midsized car and was still likely to do tremendous damage in a crash.

G.M.'s car sales rose 11.4 percent, largely on gains from its newer midsized cars.