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Old 11-15-2017, 12:10 AM   #28 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by Xist View Post
“Then there are the comments about [another student’s] banged-up Toyota with nearly 134,000 miles on it.”

I bought both of my current cars with more miles than that!
2 out of 3 for me. The Insight only had ~50K when I bought it (back in '03), but it's over 200K now, and has probably saved me close to its $8500 purchase price in gas. Figure 140K miles at 70 mpg (I've actually averaged a bit over that) is 2000 gallons, $6K at $3/gal. Anything else I bought would likely have gotten 35 mpg or less.
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