I want another option... I want another option - I went with the Festiva 'cause at least you can get to and from work in rainy weather, but I'd like to be able to widen the options to include other slightly larger vehicles... What does that Durango get MPG? My Crown Vic gets 22 to and from work and over 26 on the highway...
Mr. Durango gets 13.5 or so, and I am mostly highway. My E150 got 8, my F150 got 18. I haven't had a sipper in a long time. If I get something different I'm looking for 40 mpg minimum. I had a little 'Stiva that got nearly 50 even dragging my carcass around. It was a stick of course.
What's the Stiva really going to cost ya? Cost insurance tags ect. over keep driving the Fanrango. How long is the extra 27 miles a gal going to take to pay for its self?
I guess you are limited then to hybrids and itty bitty clown cars like the Festiva. I bought and rode a motorcycle to and from work as sole source vehicle for a couple of years, and as my luck went it was two of the wetest and coldest years on record! I have to admit that it is a real character builder to ride your bike with two feet of snow on the ground and still falling 35 miles from where I lived to the Naval Shipyard, pre-dawn to work and post-dusk home. Fun!!! (not!). I learned to hate every driver out there on the road, probably a little more than I hate all the hugenormous SUV drivers out there now. I stuck with the bike for a couple of years and then traded it for a '72 Ranchero. Still have the Ranchero - I think the bike is long since recycled.
Well, it won't take long that's for sure. Hell I pay insurance and get the Durango licensed every year already. I'm paying a car payment a month on gas alone, with gas being at the 3 buck mark. So, I have to make a decision on it one way or another. Either deal with it or get a little beater. I'm paying about $325/month on gas to commute. Gas only, not maintenance. I could reduce that greatly with a sipper.
No I'd be replacing it. Mainly because there's not enough room for all those cars, plus I can get a POS like a Festiva pretty cheap. So selling the Durango would net a replacement sipper and a few rancherobuck$$$$ to boot. Frankly, I really like that Durango, but it's a no brainer between it and the Chero. It is very functional and useful, but gas prices have me thinking hard about it.
If it's a bike he'll be replacing his hip sockets, spleen and the skin on his legs and side. $325/month = 108 gallons of gas @ $3/gal = 1458 miles driven a month = 72 miles a day (assuming a 5 day work week). If you were to buy a car that got 32mpg (the new Focus for example) you would use….. 2.2 gals/day = 45 gals/month = $135/month @ $3/gal That is a savings of $190 month which is not much less than a car payment on a new car that costs $12K. I would say lease a car and unhook the odometer.
And if I had a 'Stive at around 42MPG we're talking about $77 a month in fuel costs with petrol at $3.25/gal, so wow.
Plus you won't be wearing out the Durango. I killed my old F150, and wallet, driving it 50 miles a day for work. If I had bought a cheap beater, or two, I would have a nice old payed for truck with about 60K miles on her.
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Buy a Hybrid and be done with it. Get rid of the POS Durango and get an AWD Escape Hybrid or Similar car.
You're hawking a Escape Hybrid to me, and you have the nerve to call the Durango a POS? You be goofy, my man. Goofy. I don't want some pretend SUV hybrid green tree hugging POS. I want to save my money, not the planet. Geez louise.
An Excursion, Hummer or Youkon is a Real SUV sorry Durangos, Explorers, Jimmys, and Cherokees dont count. They are a Womans SUV. Last time I looked a most hybrids got around 50 MPG but that does not count I guess.
