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Who me? I owned 5 total last year. Two suffered motor casulties in excess of 200,000 miles and were sold off to the junkyard. One was sold off to a family that had no car for a dollar, they since rebuilt it and it continues to serve them well and the two I have left, one is a new model and the other has an excess of 230,000 on it and showing signs of fatal transmission problems that will probably result in it being sold to the junkyard. We plan on replacing that one with a Hybrid.The best car I owned had a 1.5 4 cylinder, 5 speed and gave me 45 miles to the gallon in the summer and 38 in the winter. That car had a 12 gallon tank, good for 400 miles on 15 dollars gas (1.10 at the time) and could and did run with the BMW's on the beltway commute.In fact, when you got to within 9 miles of actually running the gas tank dry it would hesitate at left hand turns as the fuel spilled to teh opposite side of the tank away from the feed line and pump.The Hybrid that replaces the one going to the junkyard when it fails is going to be expected to get at least 45 miles to gallon if not over 50. All of my cars survive because they go to the shop every 3000 miles without exception. Many trucks I ran ranged from 100 miles to 1.7 million on the odometer on the orginal engine build and netted me anywhere from 4.5 to 8.7 mpg in certain areas on the interstate. I was usually in a new truck every year when we hit 110-250 thousand on teh old one and it starts to accumulate shop time for little stuff costing us on-time delivery.When you are up in the Bitterroot or crossing the Cabbage in bad winter, that is not the time to be tolerant of equiptment problems or less than 100% design performance.
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