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Old 07-31-2013, 05:47 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by night9 View Post
Thats true, an even more efficient car would help with the savings. In reality just having manual transmission would help. I am constantly wishing I could EOC. I have one particular route that I can coast for almost a mile and EOC would be a huge benefit. The only down side is that the elantra is not my car and my girlfriend can't as of yet drive stick. She hates driving!!!!! so I drive us everywhere.

I'm waiting till after I've sold my jeep to buy my self an eco ride The jeep is in the process of getting a freshening up and I don't drive it much any more. I am interested in the 2014 mitubishi mirage as option but I want to test drive one first.

I feel my other cheaper option is to build a cvic with lean burn and areo mods but I'm weighing time vs money.
So if you do most of the driving get a stick for sure, let her learn if she wants to. Those new Mirages should be very nice and I expect will get 60-70mpg with a hypermiler behind the wheel. There are allot of good older options if saving money is your prerogative. Honda does make some of the nicer older econoboxes. A 2000-06 Honda Insight is the premier lean burn car if you wanted to go all out and only needed to be able to transport 2 people at a time.
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