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Originally Posted by slowmover
Nominal fuel burn can be outweighed by reliability & longevity.
FE is ONLY a use marker.
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To an extent. I remember some years ago reading about a very proud Chevy Suburban owner who rolled past 500k miles. I recall calculating the fuel costs at being over $150,000. Now mind you, a Suburban has more utility than a Metro, but those fuel costs will also buy a
lot of used cars plus the gas to take them all to 500k. I could buy 8 Insights for instance, and put 250k more miles on each of them for the price in fuel alone of taking the Suburban that far.
Reliability has a dollar value, but it's not the ultimate and only value