Best work car I ever had was a 92 chevy lumina, 4 door, v6, got about 26 mpg. It had 212,xxx miles on it when I got it. It was a kid's college car, drove it back and forth from here to Lousville every weekend for 4 years. His friends made fun of him for it, he told them he was not getting a new car till somthing happened to it. Night befor graduation, some of his brothers took baseball bats to it. I bought it for $300 from his dad. Drove it 40 miles round trip to work five days a week for 13 months. Changed the oil 4 or 5 times, put in one quart of slick 50 trans snake oil, and one used tire on it. Trans blew one morning come'n home, limped 10 miles at 5 mph with the flashers on. Loaded it on a trailor, filled the trunk and seat with odds and ends from behind the barn, got $240 at the shreder.
As for the number crunch'n. My point about a car or small truck has always been the extra oil changes and tires you can not realy count. If you drive your ton truck on trips you could have used say an S10, the 3 times a year you change the oil in the S10, thats 3 more times you would have to change the oil in the ton. My S10 I had used 4 quarts of oil and the filter was $4, my ton takes 6 or 7 guarts and filter cost $8. Same with tires, I got tires put on cavalier and my ton truck the same week back if December. Both sets will be good for about 50,000 miles, one cost $225/set the other was a little over $800. Taxes on my cavalier cost $60/year. Drop'n the car from my farm bureau insurance would only drop my bill by $125 a year. With fuel cost today it cost $.32/ mile for the ton (3.89/12) and $.11/mile for the car (2.29/30) with the "extra" cost of taxes and insurance I can not aford to get rid of my car.
Diffrent strokes for diffrent folks. Some people will always drive a heavy 4X4 truck 50 miles a day to work and some will always have a drive way full of cars.
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