1.   Also, the greater distances between cities in the United States make the greater comfort of large cars desirable to American drivers.

2.   American drivers do not need crocodiles breathing down their necks to achieve maximum speed.

3.   American drivers will race abroad, in Germany, and at home, in Nevada.

4.   American drivers, he says, need to develop a better feel for their cars and the skills needed in driving.

5.   American drivers lag far behind their counterparts in Japan, where many streets do not have names and buildings are numbered in haphazard ways.

6.   American drivers need more rigorous driver training.

7.   American drivers have had their flings with vinyl, their dalliances with synthetics and crushed velour.

8.   American drivers will have plenty of gasoline this summer, say Energy Department analysts.

9.   American drivers are consuming record quantities of gasoline so far this year, with about half refined from imported oil.

10.   American drivers were in their heyday.