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I always realize how good of a car my '88 Escort with 503K miles is when I look at those $20-$30K window stickers. Of course that's not the only car I have, but I figure why buy a new one when I have a '97 in the garage with less than 26K miles on it that I bought new and is rarely put on the road unless I'm taking trip of 500+ miles round trip and I also have other cars that are in between the two extremes including another '88 Escort I bought last summer with only 80K actual miles and it didn't cost anywhere near what they want for a new car. If I were going to buy a new car now it would probably be a new Mercury Grand Marquis to use for comfort on longer distance driving because of my back injury. My dad has a '99 Grand Marquis and is able to squeeze about 28-29 MPG out of it on the highway running 65-75 MPH. Since I usually get in the slow lane on the interstate and run about 55 MPH I figure I could achieve low to mid 30's which wouldn't be bad for a full size car with a V8.
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