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A very simplified comparison: SUV: $30000, MPG: 15. New Daewoo: $14000, MPG: 30. VW 1L: $20000, MPG: 200. at 12000 miles a year: SUV: $1200 in gas. Daewoo: $600 in gas. VW 1L: $87 in diesel. 5 year gas cost + cost of car: SUV: $36000 Daewoo: $17000 VW 1L: $20435 I would venture to say that VW 1L us much cheaper to maintain because of its simple construction, saving even more over SUV and Daewoo. VW 1L does not have leather seats, A/C or cruise, but if we transplanted 10% of our fat-assed spoiled luxo-barge-driving Segway-buying 3000-calorie-a-day-eating left-lane-hogging mine-is-bigger-wanting American behinds from SUVs and other gas-guzzlers, which usually transport only 1 person anyway, we'd reduce our foreign oil dependency by a significant margin while striking a nice balance between all-out comfort and substandard construction. By the way, the above is not a run-on sentence.
Chris. '85 Westy hot tub power pop-top purple skylight Hugh Hefner bath robe and pipe HMG 50 Cal mounted in the doorway Arnold Schwarzennegger as the personal driver/bodyguard |
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