Efficient, cheap beaters! Used car ads: 35 mpg highway or more for $1500 or less

[War_Wagon]

Meds?? Pfftt, I tossed all mine out years ago! That explains the fleet, really...A lot of taxi and security companies use the Prius here, so it's not uncommon to see 2nd gen ones going for cheap, but as you can imagine they usually have huge KMs on them. There is a green 1st gen that lives near me somewhere, and the City of Richmond has a 1st gen sitting in their works yard that I see going on coffee runs once in a while. Other than that the 1st gens aren't something I see a lot of.

[Xist]

This may be the most reasonable Prius listing that I have seen, although I still have reservations:

2001 Toyota Prius..Hibryd

"clean title" and it only shows minor damage to the bumper, which should be possible to pop out relatively easily, although it does not mention the odometer.

I also saw this, which I thought was interesting:

For $400 I fix and replace the hybrid battery

Hybrid prius repair camry
He specifies second generation, though.

[MetroMPG]

Another Echo... lowest price so far...



EPA: Gas Mileage of 2001 Vehicles by Toyota
29 City, 32 Combined, 37 Highway

For Sale By Owner
Year 2001
Kilometers 300k (186k mi.)
Transmission Manual

4 door 2001 silver Toyota Echo
All season tires on car but extra set of winter tires included.
Needs new battery

2001 Toyota Echo | used cars & trucks | Kingston | Kijiji

[jcp123]

Damn. It looks better than my Echo.

Although mine just looks crappy. No salt damage or anything. It's a California/Texas car.

[Xusn96]

Volkswagen Rabbit 2 Door Hatchback | eBay

***Update this listing sold for $900***

[bobdbilder]

I live in South East Asia and know that the prices that the North Americans get for these cars are the lowest that I have seen. Especially for a Toyota. Where I come from Toyotas has the lowest depreciating costs. An Echo has probably same specs as the Thailand assembled Vios. A 12 year old model 1.5 Automatic costs approx USD6k. Very few can afford to pay cash at this price. Therefore you need to take a loan. Here is the catch; the prices of cars are actually dictated by the banks and insurance companies whose interest (no pun intended) are to keep these prices as high as possible. In Singapore, any car more than 10 years old have to pay extra taxes. The loans that we take are normally have terms of 3, 5, 7 and max 9 years. If you take all these into account and knowing that wee don't make as much money as you do, it is not as 'Economical' as you might think.

The closest you could get to is a local assembled 2004 Daihatsu 660c manual Kei car model for USD 1.5k payeable only in cash. Which is only economic driven in the city, albeit a bit unsafe.

So you guys are really lucky to get those prices; if only the majority of people knew.

[MetroMPG]

Oh my. Rare to see Civics of this vintage in my neck of the woods. Most this age have bio-degraded into nothingness by now.

Technically it doesn't qualify based on asking price ($1600), but the seller says "or best offer", so I'm sure you could get it for $1500 or less if you wanted...



EPA: Fuel Economy of 1995 Honda Civic

• 35 City
• 38 Combined
• 41 Highway

For Sale By Owner
1995 Trim cx
Kilometers 295000 (183k mi.)
Transmission Manual

I've got my 95 civic up for 1600$ O.B.O. Willing to negotiate on the price. In the last year the car has gotten a new windshield, new muffler, new rear hub, new rear brake system, new brake pads and just last week and brand new water pump and timing belt. The head gasket is in the process of being fixed as well. Once that is fixed I dont know of anything else the car would need for safety or etest. The car would come with good summer and winter tires both on stock Honda rims.

1995 Honda Civic Cx | used cars & trucks | Ottawa | Kijiji

[MetroMPG]

Originally Posted by Xusn96

Volkswagen Rabbit 2 Door Hatchback | eBay

Oh - it was a diesel!

Originally Posted by bobdbilder

The closest you could get to is a local assembled 2004 Daihatsu 660c manual Kei car model for USD 1.5k payeable only in cash.

That'd be my choice!

[Sven7]

My bicycles are just too convenient and this car is too much of a hassle.

I'm selling this soon, for really cheap. If anyone in the Detroit/SE Michigan area is interested, PM me. Willing to part out the OEM mirror delete plate, custom aero mirror, LRR tires OR Winterforce snow tires, and whatever else as long as I can still sell a running, driving car.

I'm ready to deal.

[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by War_Wagon

To this day I have never been at a dealership and heard someone walk in off the street and say "I'm looking for a mid sized, domestic, V6 powered 4 door sedan, what do you have?"

I can't get that line out of my head!