[trader220]

I didn’t read the entire thread so spare me the bashing if I rehash too much. We have only one child and he’s only 11 months old so he does not take up so much space, all his stuff does to a degree. Besides the revolving door of Porsches my wife and I both drove SUV’s getting 16 mpg. I just started a new commute to work and both my wife and I are just tired of 16 mpg. We looked at the SAAB small wagon, the Outback and a handful of others but the bottom line for our basis was purely MPG and sorry but nothing beats the Prius. We had a few grand equity in the 2001 Grand Cherokee so we just bought a black Prius. Our payments are roughly the same, the insurance is 160 bucks more a year but now we also have a warrantee too. The turn signal module on the jeep was shot, the heating element in the drives seat was shot and I didn’t want to repair them. The Toyota dealer gave us what I thought was a fair price for it and now I expect to get 3 times the MPG I was getting tell me how I am not saving money? This is the first brand new car I bought since the 1990 e30 M3 I bought at the very end of 1990 which I got an awesome deal on. I usually buy em all off lease used. I expect this car to give me no hassles for all the miles we’ll rack up and do it cheaply.

I am anything but a flaming tree hugger politically I am right down the middle and I have voted with both parties since I was able to vote depending what I thought the issues were at the time.

I don’t care what people call me and I don’t car how uncool it looks. When the youth hockey team I coach is on the road and I see one kid in a huge SUV with his parents and we drive 4 or 500 miles in a weekend just seams silly to me, especially since unless I am hitching a ride with one of them I am going by myself.