So the SW has their car, maybe the rest of will follow. I'd look up a link for hydroplaning, but I'm lazy.
Mrs. Wrylee has a hybrid Camry, which is a great car. We got 40.5 over the weekend (200+ mi round trip) when I drove up to setup the in-laws computers/network/printers - who thought old folks would need that much tech?
I know that you are one of those hyper-milers, but I just set the cruise-control and let 'er rip. On top of that, I set the CC to 75, so if you're willing to be annoying you could probably do better.
I'm not sure if they count the miles from the odo or the GPS as we got about 5 miles free from the ferry and that would have helped the average.
I'm too happy with my '87 CRX, that still pumps out 35 mpg even though it is the sport model. As soon as they put out a good pluggable hybrid (I only need 50 miles for R/T ) I'm on it.
I can't see sinking the energy into a new car that I can't use for ~short trips w/o gasoline. But bottom line, I need a summer & winter car.