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My progression of eco cars over the last six years (plus a 2-ton non-eco behemoth to start it off)

The Land Rover Disco got about 12 mpg no matter how I drove it, at a time when gas was around 4 bucks a gallon and the construction industry had nosedived, making it hard to pay the bills. At the time I was using it for my daily commute plus delivering newspapers in it 7 days a week, so the fuel expense was killing me.

This brought about the purchase of Black Widow, my trusty old Festiva. This was my first real eco car, and I P&G'ed my way to around 60 mpg in it. I bought it cheap and used it for my commute for a couple of years, plus I mowed yards on the weekend and the push mower, weed eater and blower fit really well in the back

Then there were Turtle and Ron Burgundy, two awesome G1 Insights that I had a blast in. A guy on here recently told me he's bought Ron Burgundy and will shortly begin the process of bringing it back up to specs. He should consider adding back on the 3-button shift knob when he gets the IMA up and running

And then there are the two Volts. It's never been so easy to hypermile as it is in a Volt, the car basically does all the work for you. The Volt works out perfectly for my 38.1 mile two-way commute, and my company lets me charge for free, so for my purposes the Volt is a win!