In 1963, when $30,000 could support even a halfway frugal middle-class family for six years, a sane man might have taken the weekend to decide what to do with such a windfall.
What they said: In a news release, Mercedes-Benz called its new fuel-frugal E-Class "the most economical luxury sedan in the world," but the world in which Mercedes states such things does not include the United States, at least for the time being.
The midsize Sonata is selling well with a 2.4-liter, direct-injection 4 that is the strongest and most frugal in its class: 200 horsepower with 35 highway m.p.g.
THE FRUGAL REPAST Working-class naïfs expose the empty liberalism of the artsy rich, in Ron Hirsen's cartoonish, unevenly paced drama.
In the name of solidarity between the generations, and with that triple-lock guarantee against inflation untouched, I am asking frugal, hard-working, middle-class pensioners to do their bit for the country.
Always frugal, he was in first class on an upgrade purchased with frequent-flier miles.
Delhi was a different place then, with few bars or malls and a middle class that was "frugal and suspicious of the outside".
Now the 300 feels properly like a frugal sibling of the E-Class rather than a cut-rate cousin.
Selling for just 100,000 rupees ($2,100), it seeks to reach a new class of customers through frugal engineering.
"One-reason decision making" is a label for a class of fast and frugal heuristics that base decisions on only one reason.
