Originally Posted by
cartmanea
If he gets a separate car which gets 40mpg instead of a truck which might get 20mpg, he'll be saving $3000/year in fuel. That would pay for a brand new focus in just a few years.
That's if he realizes that mpg. I've always been far less then what the average claim in on mpg for whatever vehicle I have. No matter how I drive it and I'm far more conservative then you would think considering how one of my vehicles is modded.
Even the few times that I drove the ole ball and chains cavalier on a few road trips I got 18.7 mpg. I don't know how he drives and where he drives, those are going to be important factors that could help hinder him or not.
It could really be that no matter what he gets, he'll see crappy mileage.
This, of course, isn't going into rather or not he is going to have payments on a new one. If he buys used, how used is it? Is it a money pit? etc.