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Are you ok with a manual transmission? Most get better real life fuel mileage than automatics.
With a round trip of 125 miles, and if you are getting 22 mpg average in the Sorento and commuting 5 days a week, four weeks per month, you are using over 113 gallons of gas. Changing to a vehicle that gets 30 mpg {no driving habits were changed, after all} you are still using over 83 gallons of gas. At $3.00 per gallon, you went from roughly $340 per month to commute to about $250 per month.
Are you sure no adequate housing exists between where you live and where you work? If you were closer to work by half, you'd only spend $170 per month for fuel for commuting without changing your vehicle or habits. You also save money on regular maintenance, you save by buying tires less frequently and your insurance premium should go down {if the insurance company knows how far you commute}. All that money saved could go towards increased housing expenses if needed. A side benefit is the extra free time in your day to do something besides commute.
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