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Originally Posted by In The Ten Ring
This guy is totally right. A big mistake the uninformed buyer makes is trading off their current car for one with better mpg. It takes far too long to make one's money back.
That reason alone keeps me from getting rid of my 2002 Honda Accord. If I do my part, it will get 34 mpg on highway and 25 for city. My Civic (God rest its metal soul) got 50 mpg on highway and 32 in the city.
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not to get too far off topic but this is definitely the key.
I drove my 93 k1500 75 miles a day to and from work sure I only got 15/16 mpg but all that gas was about the same as a car payment! And sure the car would get double or better but that's only half what I was putting in the tank of the old girl!
Kinda like the hybrid argument an extra 4-5k for a hybrid buys a whole lotta gas!
Now on my 72 I need to at least go through my engine and if I start pricing things out it really wont cost me a whole lot more to do an LS so that's my plan just gotta pay a few more bills and hopefully by Christmas I ll have the front end off of her