A month ago, I wrote about the Super-Cars Shout Out Competition that a friend of mine, David @ PlanetThoughts, hosts. But unfortunately, after a month, I am still the sole participant of the very exciting competition!
Now, let me tell you what it is all about (again). The Super-Cars Shout Out Competition is basically an exercise where a participant places a pre-made flyer onto any of the fuel efficient cars she sees on the road — it could be at the parking area of a shopping mall, or it could be in the neighbourhood, or in the vicinity of a university, etc. Then the participant takes a picture of the car with the flyer, and uploads the picture into PlanetThoughts. The fun thing about this exercise is that you stand a chance to win USD 500 just by participating!
OK, so what’s a fuel efficient car, and which cars aren’t fuel efficient? David already did his homework — he listed 25 cars that officially achieve at least 40 miles per gallon (or 16.74 kilometers per liter) on the highway, and these are the cars that you should look out for — Honda Jazz, Hyundai Getz, Toyota Yaris, Chevrolet Matiz, and even two Malaysian-made cars, Perodua Kelisa and Perodua Kenari! 
The objective of this exercise-cum-competition is to tell car owners that they have made a great choice by purchasing a fuel-efficient car I am taking part in this competition, and I always imagine the smile on the car owner’s face when she sees the flyer on her car (check out the very nicely-worded flyers).
At the end of the competition (which ends on June 2nd), a winner will be drawn and this person takes home USD 500! The winner will be selected using a weighted value calculated from the number of valid uploaded car images from each participant, which simply means, the more pictures you upload, the greater is your chance of winning USD 500 But on top of that, David is also giving out USD 50 per month to ONE car owner who contacts him!
One of those situation where everybody wins
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I’m using company car, therefore it weird for me to buy another car, maybe i can save money to buy hidbrid one.
pelf, can you write something about alternative energy source?
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Hope to get a Yaris next…my current Vios by the way, is doing alright for fuel consumption too.
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I’d love to buy a fuel-efficient car! I hate these big SUV anyway and I spend way too much in gas. Can’t afford to change now but that’s definitely something I’d do.
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Sounds like a very nice idea, loved especially the task of pointing out the good things rather than talking against the polluting cars
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