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Originally Posted by mav1178
I wouldn't change a car to save on gas, but if my lease was up (which it is in August on my Lexus) or if I'm planning to buy a car in the near future, knowing that a certain auto maker has no vehicles meeting my mileage criteria makes it easy to NOT consider them.
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That makes a lot of sense.
I was more referring to folks that panic, take their paid for, near paid for, or even worse relatively new SUV that they are way upside down on, and go trade it for a smaller car because it's going to save money.
If you've read my Owner's Journal you'll see I actually track this (which I really need to update). When I bought my FRS I was replacing a Chevy Astro as my daily driver. I almost doubled my fuel economy (from 17.5MPG to an average of 33MG over 120,000 miles).
So, after almost 6 years and 120,000 miles I have saved $7,883 in fuel. At would need to drive the car 18 years and 360,000 miles to have a true ROI.