Posted by jdemaris on May 09, 2008 at 06:55:06 from (67.142.130.42):
In Reply to: Re: gas prices posted by DaveF on May 09, 2008 at 06:07:46:
We are the same way in regard to debt. I've never had a car loan in my life and prefer to keep it that way. And, even with using cash - I'd never consider a new vehicle. It makes no sense to me as long as I can fix my own and drive older rigs. Now - if we had a drastic change in technology - e.g. gas or diesel no longer allowed or available - and we had to drive hydrogen powered vehicles or nothing? Well, then I'd have to think on it a bit.
But for now - I can buy a house or two for the price of many new trucks. I prefer to buy the houses - and drive older cars and trucks.
From what I see - there is nothing new on the market that offers as good as fuel mileage I get now. Even with Subarus - they've gone down-hill a bit. Much of that because they keep installing bigger engines with more power. We recently junked our 1989 Subaru 4WD Justy and it always got better than 30 MPG. My 1985 Subaru Loyale 4WD wagon with a 1.8 gets 33 MPG on the highway and it does not have fuel injection. My wife's 95 AWD two-door Impreza with the 2.2 gets 24 MPG on the highway. I recently drove an almost new Forester with a 2.5 and it got 23 MPG on the one trip I took. I was just looking at the test specs for all the newest Subarus and the best one gets 26 MPG whereas most get 23-25 MPG highway. Not very impressive.
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