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I love my 05 Scion Xb. Inexpensive up front and continues to be with an average around town mpg of 32. The "Black Box" is very roomy and with the rear seat down converts into quite the cargo carrier.
On the way home from Ikea at Woodbridge, VA after purchasing my kitchen I got 39.9 mpg on I-95!!
We had an '05 Scion xB (companion to my Mini Cooper) and it had crazy amounts of room! The only complaint we had about it was it is not geared for highway driving, more for around town. Great gas mileage and very cool looking. I don't like the new version as much at all.
I'm with you Splatgirl, holding tight until they make a good looking people and stuff hauler with a big ole sunroof that gets 40 mpg minimum. I would also like an interesting little sipper that seats four and gets the max! I have heard that there are plans for making the Mini-Cooper (I love the clubman) a plug in hybrid which would be sweet!
I can hardly drive down the road anymore in my mid-size gas guzzling SUV for the swarms of bikes everywhere and while I am worried about them zipping around and running through lights and being constantly in my blind spot, I'm thrilled that more people are doing this. The parking garage at work is literally filled to the brim with bikes.
When there are workable plug in hybrids my goal will be to convince my company to re-wire the parking garage to allow for recharging for a nominal fee.
I have another car which really doesn't get driven at all right now ... it sits in the garage ... it's a 1974 VW convertible karmannGhia! that's my collectible car. I'm the third owner of it (there were two owners of it in 1974) - I bought it from the 2nd owner about 10 years ago or so. It's pretty much original except for the paint - it was a bring neon green - but somewhere along the line there was a little fender bender and it's nose got crushed .. during the repairs the owner changed the paint color to a paler yellow.
it's a fun car - but doesn't do well on the hills where I currently live .. it doesn't have much power and is an air cooled engine.
my plan was to re-do the interior and to put a bit bigger engine in it. lately I've been thinking that I should probably sell it since it is not being driven.
Doreen
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question is, how do you bring stuff back from ikea on a bike baffles me
You'll be amazed how much you can carry in a backpack and on the carrier of a bike. Apart from that Ikea Amsterdam has a pretty fast delivery service for the bigger items (normally 1-4 hours after handing over).
Apart from that, I see sometimes a carrier-bike or bikes with trailer
I have a 1998 4X4 Expedition - averages about 22-24 MPG and 18-19 MPG towing a big trailer. Have to have the 4X4 due to some of the places we go in the winter snowmobiling.
It is a gas loving big SUV but we need to have a vehicle that big to tow our big snowmobile trailer in the winter and trailer loads of items going to our place up north.
It seats our entire family of five plus the big dog and all of our luggage and snowmobile gear.
I only drive about 15 KM total to work and home every day so the gas mileage doesn't really factor in as I drive hubs company car in the evenings.
If I had my choice I would still have to go big to hold everyone, everything and the dog. But that aside and if it wasn't a factor I would love to have a new Mustang California special edition rag top. I was also admiring the new Ford Flex today - that is a nice looking SUV.
For a few years I was traveling around and driving into Toronto (45 min) three times a week for work - We bought a little standard Honda Civic that got fantastic fuel mileage but I was unable to have our entire family in it and could not put a weeks worth of groceries in it. It was a fun car to drive and perfect for going in the city with as it was so small I could squeeze it into the smallest of parking spots- cant do that with the big SUV I drive now.
I look at the little smart cars and wonder how the owners of them manage to put luggage or groceries in it - it is so small.
We also have two old hot rods in the garage (aka - toy box) that are hubs first love - a 66 GTO and a 70 Torino Cobra completely restored just like new by hubs himself. They only come out for the occasional drive or to car shows etc.
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Current daily beaters: '95 Saturn SL2 (127k miles) and '95 Chevy S10 (198k). Saturn has the front passenger seat removed as so I could haul longer cargo. Latter is still being worked on ... tranny rebuilt, engine bolted back up ... just the rest of the cooling system to do now and realign the front again since there's sign of too much camber wear.
Long distance cruiser: '94 Buick Roadmaster (164k). Corvette V8, seats 8, and can get 25mpg on the highway.
Weekend car: '91 Volvo 740 (222k). Turbo and stick shift means trouble could be made if I wanted to.
Previous vehicles ...
- '94 Volvo 940. Gave to dad after his car got totalled.
- '91 740. $300 parts donor.
- '90 740. Bought for $1k, drove it a year and 10k miles, resold for $1k
- '90 740. $250 car with tranny and electrical issues. Resold a week later for $400.
- '90 740. $400 car that needed a water pump. Resold 2 hours later for $500.
- 88 760. $350 car with a tweeked frame. Drove for 1k miles, then the A/C died in the middle of summer, so I sold it for $850.
- '86 760. $500 car with a fresh rebuilt engine and tranny. Parted out for $$ and labor in exchange.
- '86 240. $1500 problem car. Traded after 5 years and 50k miles.
- '79 240. My first car out of college. Gave up its life for mine when another driver ran a red at 50mph through an intersection.
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