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Ok regardless of whether i need the truck or not this is how i look at the new car situation. Assuming my truck gets 15mpg and the purchase price of $5k for a new car.
A 40 mpg car would take 2.5 years to pay for itself.
A 30 mpg car would take 3 years to pay for itself.
I figured these on a 240 mile week at $4.00 a gallon.
Thats not including maintence items of the new car and other unknowns. Yes the truck will require the same maintence but atleast i already know the mechanical status of my truck.
Maybe i am looking at this wrong? I am all for a new more efficient car but it has to pay off somewhere in less than 2 years preferably less than 20 months.
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