No air conditioning, no power windows, no cruise control, no automatic transmission, nothing.
About a week before I took off for Varsity Scout Camp Janet and I took a little drive around town looking for something that would get better gas mileage than the Suburban that I was commuting in. We'd been thinking about it for some months now, at least I had. Janet was on board with the idea, but since it would be my car to commute in it was up to me to find something. I'd been keeping an eye open along the ride home each day and hadn't really seen anything. That's when we decided to look in some of the used car lots around town. We spent a couple of evenings looking and driving and were kinda getting discouraged. Our intial price range proved to be too low for our expectations. We didn't realize how Honda's hold their value and how much in demand they really are. Well, we re-visited a car lot that deals with mostly Honda's and there it was. We took a test drive and were sold. It's a good thing too, gas here is $3.98 and climbing. When I got back from my Moab/Varsity Scout trip it took almost 36 gallons and $142.00 to fill the Suburban.
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So what kind of mileage does it really get? Mike bought a truck with the intent of putting in CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) and driving it home, he found it got 20 mpg. For a big truck, not bad, he said.
The Suburban gets 13-14 mpg. The Civic got 38 mpg last fill-up.
Smart to have a commuter car. Kirk drives all over the place for work, no compensation and he drives V-8 truck. Ouch. And by the way, your gas is cheap. We're paying $4.60. Probably more now. That was what it was when I filled up last week. :-(
That's a cute little car... so is the suburban gone, or just parked for a while?
The Suburban is parked in the driveway waiting for scout trips, camping trips, and moving furniture and such. We might trade it in for a truck sometime in the next couple of years. Now Amanda has bought a car too! We have five cars in the driveway and on the road in front of the house. Our place looks like a used car lot right now.
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