LATimes: – – 52 mpg and the darkness before dawn: On a test drive of a – – last week in West L.A. traffic, I managed, without much trouble, to get 52 mpg in mixed city-highway driving. Wait, so, has somebody invented the car of the future and didn’t tell us?

I’ve dashed out the name because people come with their own prejudices and probably won’t click.

A 52MPG FAMILY CAR. A car platform that Consumer Reports has graded as above average in quality, as an equal to any in the world.

But I bet you can’t get past who it is from.

Which is sad.