[brucepick]

Well if you made it through reading the thread title, kudos!

I saved well over $4000 driving my Civic since its purchase, as compared with what I would have spent driving my previous daily driver.

Bought my Civic 2 years and 11 months ago.
Have driven it 85,782 miles since then, at an average 42.94 mpg.

I'd been driving a Volvo 240 wagon, long term average probably about 26 mpg.

Calculating the cost of feeding the Volvo for those 85.78K miles vs feeding the Civic, I saved about $4200. That's approximately equal to the cost of the Civic plus the head rebuild project that I had done this past spring.

Not bad at all!!