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

Posted by john d on September 12, 2005 at 21:28:34 from (69.128.200.18):

In Reply to: OT- buying car to save on fuel costs... posted by 26Red on September 12, 2005 at 12:41:32:

Unless you find an older car in good shape that still gives good mileage, you won't save as much as you want to. Unless you exercise good driving habits, you likely won't save much at all.
I have a '96 Chevy Lumina LS sedan with 153,000 miles on it. I get anywhere from 25 to 29 mpg depending on how/where I drive it. A car such as that would use roughly half of the gas your truck takes. It's worth a lot less than $8K, also. My wife has a 2000 Impala that gets about 25-27 mpg when she drives it locally. Several times we've averaged over 30mpg on trips. Lots of those are available at reasonable cost.
The previous post about the Honda is worth consideration. They're tough, and they're miserly with fuel. I never thought they were particularly comfortable, however.

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