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Originally Posted by dremd
I just folded down the seats and loaded the golf up with them. I was contemplating on the way home weather the golf had hauled more over it's life span, or the F-250?
My dad has the E-350, if he drives it it is FULL Internally, + 2 sets of roof racks + Roof box + Rear Carrier. I'm not sure how to rate load mpg's but I'd guess he does decent (but I keep trying t get him to buy a sprinter anyways).
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In the 70's we had a SAAB 96, a two-door sedan. It had a rear seat that folded and tumbled to make a flat load floor. Whenever the Scouts did their paper drive, there were three dads with trucks and us with the SAAB. The SAAB couldn't quite match the trucks, but it sure shocked the heck out of everyone who had to keep helping unload it, and unload it, and unload it some more. Surprisingly roomy in there.
When we were shopping for our truck, we weighed the options: lightly used fullsize, or new compact? We're still driving the compact. It is more than equal to our needs, and when we don't need a big truck, it gets decent mileage as a car, esp. carrying two people.
Another factor people don't consider is the energy bound up in making the car in the first place. It takes megawatt-hours and lots of them to make that thing: there's sheet steel, cast iron, cast aluminum, about 40-50 kilos of glass, rubber - all these things take a lot of energy to wrestle out of the ground, reduce to useable forms, then form into usable constructs. If you're going to invest in that, make the investment last. Drive it 'til it falls over.