98 Dodge Durango...we get 9 mpg city...20 hwy....BUT, I can go anywhere on or off road, haul whatever I need, and lay down rubber and smoke like a NASCAR Driver...hehehehe!
Totally worth it!
Also have 91 Saturn that gets decent mileage and is easy to fix. Considering a newer small car...mrs p6 likes the Soul...Ford Fiesta or CMAX...in the hills of PA nothing gets manufacturers mpg claims.
BOL!: “98 Dodge Durango...we get 9 mpg city...20 hwy....BUT, I can go anywhere on or off road, haul whatever I need, and lay down rubber and smoke like a NASCAR Driver...hehehehe!”
Our younger son got an early inheritance, my big Ford Bronco, OJ Simpson model with the big V8 5 years ago. He gets about 12 mpg in town which is minimal driving and about 15-17 mpg on the road.
At first due to pressure from enviral whackos, he considered getting a so called eco friendly vehicle. He put new tires on the Bronco and had the yearly smog test which it passed. The owner of the smog shop told him to keep the vehicle until it stopped running in about another 100,000 miles pluse the original 100k, and if he decided to sell it, to contact his shop first.
He is an avid bike rider and rides his bike to and from work when the weather permits and puts maybe 5k miles on each year. Most of his drives are one a lot of 2 lane roads, where a lot of people in the enviral whacko vehicles are often in head ons or slamming into a tree. They end up seriously hurt or killed. If it is a head on with similar vehicle, the driver of the big pickup or suv walks away or drives away. Not so with those in the smaller beer cans posing as cars.
The town he lives in has a great Ford dealer, and the head mechanic loves the Broncos and service is minimal, low cost and excellent.
One of his fellow bike riders is a cpa and told my son that he would be wasting big money to buy a $25-30k+ vehicle to be green. He gave him a spread sheet to prove the point.
Often when he parks his Bronco to go bike riding, he will have a business card or a sheet of paper under the windshield wiper on his side offering to buy his Bronco.