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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Well 60 miles, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year is 15,000 miles. I don't think you will get 60, but 50 is doable. At $5/gal that's only a $640 savings a year.
Now there could be other savings with a hybrid. Better resale, the brakes last longer. You are doing good with your Ford. I had the Lincoln version here the MKZ and didn't get 25 mpg. Of course it was the AWD 400hp 3.0 turbo. I switched to a Sonata Hybid and get 50 pretty easy. I have seen a trip across town claim 72mpg once, but tank to tank, hand calculating around town it gets 50 and that's my wife mostly driving it not trying. So I'm happy I got the Sonata. We drove 30,000 the first year so saved about $2,200 with gas here at about 3.80/gallon.
I also may be confusing European gals and US gallons, so maybe 50 US mpg would be more like 60 European.
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In UK we use Imperial gallons for MPG, 4.54 litres I think.
Also, fuel here costs a bit more than in the US. The cheapest place I can get it, converting to US gallons, it's £5.32 a gallon, or in USD it's $6.74 a gallon.
My mileage would be a little lower as I only go there 4 days a week as 1 is at college, but I also work a second job which is close by, so maybe 13000 is more accurate, so considering that, it's £591 a year savings if I base off actually getting 35 MPG with my current car doing more techniques, whereas if I go off what I'm actually getting which is 31/32, its around £813 a year savings.
Which is less than I'd have hoped, but it's still pretty good I guess. I'll just have to think more on it and decide if it really is worth spending several thousand on another car for the long run savings at this point in time or wait a bit.
Side question, I see a lot of used Prius' going relatively cheap as imports from Japan. Is it a gamble getting one of those because the numbers always look good, but I heard they get them from not the best conditions.