What's your MPG?

[onlinebiker]

I called:

No check engine light == No warranty service

Put a lawyer on their ass. They are screwing you.

No check engine light is not a pass for faulty equipment.

[Cecelia]

My Subaru gets 30 mpg in the city, and 34 on the highway.

Our Prius gets 58 mpg in the city and 53 on the highway.

And my Crossfire gets 21 mpg in the city and 24 on the highway.

I only drive the Crossfire to work on days when it's cold. Other days, I can walk. And the Subaru only gets going if we're all going somewhere as a family and we need a second vehicle.

[pocaracas]

UK Ford Fiesta gets ~43MPG on the motorway and dips a bit to ~36MPG when commuting. And I think this is drinking too much.

What kind of drinking monsters are you guys driving??

[zebo-the-fat]

UK Ford Fiesta gets ~43MPG on the motorway and dips a bit to ~36MPG when commuting. And I think this is drinking too much.

What kind of drinking monsters are you guys driving??

They be 'mericans, seem to think economical cars are wimpy!

[onlinebiker]

UK Ford Fiesta gets ~43MPG on the motorway and dips a bit to ~36MPG when commuting. And I think this is drinking too much.

What kind of drinking monsters are you guys driving??

They be 'mericans, seem to think economical cars are wimpy!  

Our Saturns weigh less than a Mini Cooper and can get just as good or better gas mileage.

My SO bought her first one new, but all the rest - 25 cars- were bought used - averaging UNDER $1000 each.

Several were bought for parts. Several bought with blown engines. The car I am driving now cost $300 with a blown engine. I replaced it with a good engine from a rusted out car - for an additional $250.

The last two cars we sold went for 5 times or more for what we paid.

I know these cars inside and out. I do all of our service on them - and they are remarkably trouble free cars.

Parts are cheap - when I do have to buy new - which is rare.

I can't imagine driving anything else. Buying a new car that gets 50 mpg would NOT be economical - one car payment of $500 is more than I spend on gas in a year.

[pocaracas]

They be 'mericans, seem to think economical cars are wimpy!  

Our Saturns weigh less than a Mini Cooper and can get just as good or better gas mileage.

My SO bought her first one new, but all the rest - 25 cars- were bought used - averaging UNDER $1000 each.

Several were bought for parts. Several bought with blown engines. The car I am driving now cost $300 with a blown engine. I replaced it with a good engine from a rusted out car - for an additional $250.

The last two cars we sold went for 5 times or more for what we paid.

I know these cars inside and out. I do all of our service on them - and they are remarkably trouble free cars.

Parts are cheap - when I do have to buy new - which is rare.

I can't imagine driving anything else. Buying a new car that gets 50 mpg would NOT be economical - one car payment of $500 is more than I spend on gas in a year.

$500 is also more than I spend on petrol in a year... This thing of calling a liquid "gas" is weird

For a total of $1000, what could we get in the UK?... 2004 Ford Fiestas and that's £999 (which google will tell you is well above $1000).
Of course, we have MOTs here and I've heard that in the ol' U.S. of A. cars drive till they drop - safety and emissions be damned.

[arewethereyet]

Our Saturns weigh less than a Mini Cooper and can get just as good or better gas mileage.

My SO bought her first one new, but all the rest - 25 cars- were bought used - averaging UNDER $1000 each.

Several were bought for parts. Several bought with blown engines. The car I am driving now cost $300 with a blown engine. I replaced it with a good engine from a rusted out car - for an additional $250.

The last two cars we sold went for 5 times or more for what we paid.

I know these cars inside and out. I do all of our service on them - and they are remarkably trouble free cars.

Parts are cheap - when I do have to buy new - which is rare.

I can't imagine driving anything else. Buying a new car that gets 50 mpg would NOT be economical - one car payment of $500 is more than I spend on gas in a year.

$500 is also more than I spend on petrol in a year... This thing of calling a liquid "gas" is weird

For a total of $1000, what could we get in the UK?... 2004 Ford Fiestas and that's £999 (which google will tell you is well above $1000).
Of course, we have MOTs here and I've heard that in the ol' U.S. of A. cars drive till they drop - safety and emissions be damned.

Technically we can drive a car till it drops but I had to get rid of a car I loved because it wouldn't pass emissions here in TX. We tried every fix we could find and nothing worked...still don't know what the issue was. My daughter in another state drove it for a few years because I couldn't register it any more here. So the good ole US has different rules in different states.

[onlinebiker]

Our Saturns weigh less than a Mini Cooper and can get just as good or better gas mileage.

My SO bought her first one new, but all the rest - 25 cars- were bought used - averaging UNDER $1000 each.

Several were bought for parts. Several bought with blown engines. The car I am driving now cost $300 with a blown engine. I replaced it with a good engine from a rusted out car - for an additional $250.

The last two cars we sold went for 5 times or more for what we paid.

I know these cars inside and out. I do all of our service on them - and they are remarkably trouble free cars.

Parts are cheap - when I do have to buy new - which is rare.

I can't imagine driving anything else. Buying a new car that gets 50 mpg would NOT be economical - one car payment of $500 is more than I spend on gas in a year.

$500 is also more than I spend on petrol in a year... This thing of calling a liquid "gas" is weird

For a total of $1000, what could we get in the UK?... 2004 Ford Fiestas and that's £999 (which google will tell you is well above $1000).
Of course, we have MOTs here and I've heard that in the ol' U.S. of A. cars drive till they drop - safety and emissions be damned.

What goes in the combustion chamber better not be a liquid.

All of the cars we drive are solid bodies with properly maintained suspension and tires.

We do not have emissions testing in Michigan - but all of our cars would pass California emmission standards for the year produced. (And likely later as well) Being multiport fuel injection the fuel management/ignition advance curve are designed with those standards as a goal.

Simply put - they run best running clean.