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I had an Insight. From 35k to 62 k miles it had $7000 in warrranty work done by the dealership. Battery, ECM, catalyst, it adds up quickly. The 10 year battery warranty start date is the in service date of the car, when it was first sold to a retail customer. Considering the thread about your overheating problem which intitated with a post about a different oil viscosity being the cause of a significant rise in cooling temperatures,
My advice is get a car that has the lowerst required maintenance over it's lifetime.
In my experience that is an Echo.
I know many here love the 1st gen Insights, the VX, 3 cylinder Metros. Look through the gaslogs lists of all the cars on this site with fuellogs. While mileage may be your primary goal and the purpose of this thread, right up there with mileage should be reliability, as well as the sum total of maitenance requirements over the period of ownership.
That was the basis of my recommendation to get an Echo. I has even lower maintenance requirements that your Camry, which had a timing belt. In todays market a timing belt job would buy you a couple hundred gallons of gas. At 45 MPG that's a 9000 mile free gas card since the Echo has a chain that lasts the life of the engine with decent oil change intervals.
regards
Mech
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