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Originally Posted by Cash68
I think you should stop messing with that awful car and just buy something else. Those are some of the most terrible vehicles in the entire world. Putting any effort into it will be a total waste of time, especially with used prii becoming so cheap.
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Aren't you full of enthusiasm? Given that I haven't got money to be buying anything else at the moment(shame too since I seen a nice 07 Saturn Ion, or a decent 01 Saturn SW2, both manual trans, for cheap-ish), that's outta the question, as I've got other stuff that comes first, part of which is getting the Saturn I already own back up and driving...
I don't even particularly care for my current car, it's big, heavy, and it never came in a manual trans, so no swaps are reasonable, but I'm stuck with it for now, so why not improve its mileage until something better comes along?
Waste of time? I don't agree, as I've already gained ~10% in FE from what little I've done, and there's lots more to do for cheap...
Buy a Prius? Other than the stigma of driving one here in WV, hybrid battery packs are friggin expensive to replace/repair, and I would have to think really hard about taking a chance of getting stuck with a repair costing as much as the car did... I sometimes think of a G1 Insight, but the battery cost has so far dissuaded me from being serious about a purchase...