Memories of a Foreigner

After rising gasoline prices and a bad economy, many people have started to buy fuel efficient cars instead of the typical monster trucks, SUVs.
When I arrived here in the USA, my family has had a Ford Fiesta, a car even smaller than the Ford Focus; which looked a lot smaller compared with the cars in the Detroit Metro area where they support a lot the big 3 (Ford, Chevy and Chrysler). Mostly these companies use to sell big cars and people bought them.
When driving it, many people looked at it and they saw it like a new car or a prototype, like “What the hell is that?”. There was even one time that a police followed the car from behind and the left side for around 2 miles only to see it.
But now many people don’t look at the car anymore, at least not as they used to because cars like the Toyota Prius and the Smart ForTwo have been selling them more than other years because of the fuel prices.