Re: OT- buying car to save on fuel costs...

Posted by Hal/WA on September 13, 2005 at 11:15:10 from (148.65.0.200):

In Reply to: Re: OT- buying car to save on fuel costs... posted by Duane H on September 13, 2005 at 09:43:51:

I try to use my big Ford with 460 when I need to haul something and as little as I can for use like a car. A big year for it mileage wise is 5000--I expect it to last me many more years and it is already old, a 1984. But it does the jobs I need it to do just fine, although at about 10mpg.

Most of my trips can be done with a little car. We have had excellent luck with Mazda Protege's. I think we have had 6 of them over the years, and none of them has required much of anything besides normal maintanance up to 200k. I have bought all but one as low mileage used cars and most of them have been handed down to my kids and are still on the road. Toyotas and Nissans are also good cars, but I have always thought my dollars went a little farther buying the Mazdas. With the Protege's we regularly get 30mpg overall, but the best thing has been that they have been so completely reliable. I wish my experience with U.S. made cars would have been as positive.

Insurance costs are something else to factor into the equation. An extra vehicle costs quite a bit each year to insure, especially if you need to have collision/comprehensive coverage. But at $3 per gallon for gas, it makes a lot less sense to drive a 10mpg truck on a trip when a 30mpg car could do the job than it did when gas cost half that.

I will be buying another small car soon. They don't make Mazda Protege's any more, but maybe I will find one that is a few years old, or maybe I will get something else.

I am guessing that there will be a whole lot of low mpg SUV's on the market for cheap prices. I am sure glad I didn't give in to my wife when she wanted to buy something like that.....

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• Re: OT- buying car to save on fuel costs... Jon Holt 19:33:17 09/13/05 (0)

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