I'm lucky in this respect also. My truck just turned 2 years old and I just hit 10,000 miles on it. It's my minimal commute that still allows me to drive my truck. I do have a second car to drive, but it's not much better. It's a '97 T-Bird that has a 5.0L V8. Guess I just like gas guzzlers!

 

Ha! I had the conversation about scooters a couple weeks ago. My ride is long enough...and hot enough in the summer...and cold enough in the winter...where I probably wouldn't like it too much.

Though I was looking at the Vespas.

http://www.vespausa.com/

Boy, I thought NJ was bad with taxes. But that Personal Property thing stinks.

 

Got the first fill-up on the commuter car Saturday night. 27MPGs on that first tank. A gas savings of $38.75 by not using the truck for those miles. Time to watch the savings rack up!

(Oh and in true Guigster luck, doesn't somebody bump the Neon yesterday trying to parallel park between it and another car at the shore? Amazing.)

 

I have one of those! 86 ranger, beat to S***, rattles, stinks, 167k, headliner droops, dirty as hell. BUT
it gets 25mph for my 40 Mi round trip. $20/m to insure, but save gas over the 150 2:1. Gas bill has dropped by $200/m and saves lots of wear and tear on the 150. + I get to style on the weekend in the 150

 

Tint the windows really dark so know one can see him in it, lol.

 

I have a BMW 4 cylinder 318 and a motorcycle so I guess this is why the gas prices havent hurt me as of yet. I dont drive the truck at all and when I do its most likely to haul my atv.

 

The prices weren't necessarily "hurting" me. It was more like they were "pi$$ing me off."

 

I feel you. They are pissing me off also

 

pmason,
what is your real world gas mileage on that 318?

 

...I will tell you that it has not worked out as planned. Kudos to all of you whose advice I ignored. All of my gas savings for the first year has been sucked up by new tires, new tie rods, new rear brake cylinders and brakes, an alignment and an exhaust leak.

Anyone want to buy a Neon? It's got a lot of new parts on it.

 

My truck tends to be a road trip warrior. My commute is generally on my motorcycle (~42MPG), my car (~26MPG highway) or I could always take the bicycle.

The motorcycle costs me ... I dunno. Payment, insurance, farkles. I didn't buy it to save gas though. In fact I bought it before I got my truck.

The bicycle costs me nothing

The SHO cost next to nothing. Then again, I get parts dirt cheap or free and have been in the SHO world for like 10 years. I bought it about 1 year after I sold my last one. Got it for a good price and have dumped moe than I paid into upgrades, but they were wants, not really needs.

Somehow, in under a year, I have put over 15K on my truck.

 

Dang that stinks!

 

I also bought a itty bitty car to let my truck rest....01 Escort ZX2. I'm getting roughly 33 mpg on the highway and it takes about $23 to fill it up vs. $65 in my truck. I'm getting about 14 mpg hwy in my truck with 42k miles, so either way I'm keeping the miles down. I don't mind driving it as does my wife. Slow as heck, but what do I care.

 

i bought a 1987 vw cabriolet for my daily driver... 200 bucks, inoperable with broken trans and much more, spent another 600 and 3 months in my garage and that baby has paid itself over many times with its 31-33 mpg. I look like a total spaz driving it though (im 6'2")

 

I'm in the same boat with the tin can Neon. 6'4", 265lbs. It's quite a site.