What's your MPG?

[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.