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Old 12-06-2011, 12:36 PM   #11 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Wouldn't even want to try to get by with just one, because that one would have to handle the 10-15% of my driving that involves hauling, rough dirt tracks, and/or deep snow. (Occasionally all three.) That would make it pretty darned inefficient for the 85-90% of my driving that doesn't.

So I wind up doing the 85-90% in the Insight at 70+ mpg, and the rest in the '88 Toyota pickup, at about 25 mpg. Don't know about the rebuilding, though: despite the Toyota being almost 30 years old, the only "rebuilding" I've done (besides adding a CD player and heavy-duty hitch) has been things like fan belts and a couple of tires.

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