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New Dealer Sticker

As of September 1, 2007, dealerships across the nation will have to implement a new Monroney window sticker design that is touted to be more informative. It will now include such things as NHTSA crash test rating, and real-world gas mileage (12-percent drop in city driving and 8-percent on trhe highway. While Hybrids will see a gas mileage deficit of 20-percent). This redesign is further important as it will funny jokes herald the arrival of more stringent safety regulations, which, as of the aforementioned date, will now require all automakers to have side-curtain airbags in half their vehicles weighing under 8,500 lbs. By 2009, all vehicles must have side-curtain protection,