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I’ve been complaining to Ken about the Dodge van not getting good gas mileage.
All the other Caravans I’ve ever had got pretty good mileage — usually around 30 mpg highway, but the best I’ve been able to squeeze out of this one is 23 mpg and, since my commute to work is 50+ miles, that’s not very good mileage!
We’ve discussed buying a car to just do back-and-forth to work and other short trips in, but after reviewing our budget, didn’t think we could afford one. I thought the subject was put to bed, but evidently, I thought wrong!
Yesterday, after eating breakfast and faking me out with a trip to Sam’s Club, Ken pulled into a Suzuki dealership saying he wanted to look at their cars and see what they had in the way of gas saving cars.
I HATE car shopping and he knows it! The last car we got, he did all the hunting, negotiating and so on - all I had to do was go test drive it and give my OK on it. I find car salespersons to be unprofessional, pushy and obnoxious. I resent having to spend hours just to buy a stupid car. It makes no sense to me that the process of purchasing a car in this country has to take 4 hours or more.
Well, the first car we looked at was a Reno which was rated at 28 mpg. Ken had them run some numbers and when they came back with them, they looked promising. Meanwhile, we looked around the dealership at other cars on the lot. Found this SX4 Crossover and loved it! I’ve owned a mini van for the last 15 years, so anything smaller seems claustrophobic to me, but this little car has lots of interior room. And, those numbers came back good, too!
As an added incentive, it’s rated at 33mpg highway!
So, I’m now the proud owner of a Deep Sea Blue SX4 Crossover, a gas card good for $1200 worth of gas, one of the dealership’s logo pens and a zero percent interest loan!
Now if I could find someone to car pool with, I would REALLY be saving the planet!
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