what is a good used hypermiler car for less than $1500

[scorch]

Just curious if you were in the market for buying a used car. And wantednto achieve the highest possible mileage. What car would you choose? There are many cars available and I would assume that a light 2 seater car, that is in manual, and is already efficient and gets about 30 miles to the gallon is probably a good platform. What if you want to achieve 70 miles to the gallon?


Some cars would be great and importantly cheap


1. Toyota tercel ive seen manynfor under 1000$
2. Geo metro
3. Toyota paseo. That is what I have. But auto trans which hurts
4. Old Honda insight. Not sure you can get them for less than 1500
5 old Prius?
6. Toyota celica
7. Honda civics
8. Honda Del Sol?
9. Nissan sentra
10. Wvolkswafen TDI. Not sure you can get it for cheap
11. Chevy cavalier?
12. Ford focus

[user removed]

Baltimore.

2001 Toyota Echo

regards
mech

[scorch]

The echondoes sound good. 40 mpg stock

[MetroMPG]

Hmmm... I knew this would come in useful...

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...mpg-30489.html

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[scorch]

I emailed that echo owner

[cowmeat]

From your area:

1999 VW Jetta TDI Diesel 5sp.
95 civic 5 speed
1997 honda accord 5 speed
96 Honda accord 5 speed
1990 Toyota Camry 5-spd
1995 infiniti g20 5 speed

[JRMichler]

Chevrolet Aveo. Several in your area in your price range.

I drove one for about three weeks, in the winter, through two snowstorms, below zero temperatures, automatic transmission. And still got 36 MPG. With a manual transmission, I would expect over 50 MPG in the summer.

[awcook]

Aveos have lots of issues though, and read out more codes than the car is worth. It may seem like a nice cheap option, but all the people that I know that have one really dislike it because it is not a quality car. Good hypermiler cars are cars that will last you for life if treated carefully, and sadly, the Aveo is not one of those cars.