Gasoline is running me about $150/month at current prices. The daily round trip commute is ~52 miles if I take the back way, 56 if I run main roads there and back again. Plus some running around on the weekends so I'm filling up about 10 gallons a week.
Compact
Kia Forte
Hyundai Elantra
Toyota Corolla/Toyota Matrix
Honda Civic
Ford Focus
No Nissan on the list? When I had to replace my last car that my idiot neighbor did a hit on run on last year, I test drove all those + Mazda offerings (had a Civic as rental). The only one that felt right for me was another Sentra. The Kia felt like an updated Yugo, the Hyundia, Mazda and Ford did not fit ergonomically and while the Toyota could have been a good fit, true to form the Toyota sales staff started the high pressue upsell so I walked (third time Toyota has done this in 20 years, never again).