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That's a $1918 saving on gas - likely enough to buy the car.y, the pick-up truck is a deep-rooted virus in the US.[/QUOTE]

It's not so much that, it's the pickup trucks that we have access to. I wish we had the same pickups that are sold everywhere else, the same half ton and small pickups that the US OEMs sell to other markets that get double the mpg.

But that's a whole 'nuther story.

I hate to say it EM, but Amuricans have been indoctrinated well on truck ownership.