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Another daily mobile thread. 2015 mazda 6.
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bad zuki
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I drive this thing like I stole it. Hypermiling is gay.
I drive a metro, they are about the same. It feels like I'm driving an F1 car everywhere and my foot doesn't leave the floor.
Penetrode Offroad
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You know son, everybody should have nice reliable transportation and enough back seat for.... you get the idea.Might have to see what penetrode wants to see me in now that he is auditioning to be my new dad... And see if anyone knows the duty cycles of an insight compared to a Mazda
Do you pull the ebrake and screech your tires into your little spot at work too??
I think the 3,6, and Miata are solid vehicles.
For when you want to make it more fun.
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For when you want to make it more fun.
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Shouldn't be an issue with competent ownership.
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You should buy a TDI swapped Insight. Obviously.The zuki is all about the hypermiling. Yall missed an off screen text conversation where he has attempted to get me to buy a 4k dollar high mileage insight instead
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it only had 60hp plus a 10hp electric motor
so of course it'd be gutless
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sighing intensifies
I'm starting to lean more towards ditching the tdi and 4t65 and going with a manual trans and a 1.6d
all mechanical, no electronic anything
the only holdup is that I cut up the cable throttle pedal and made it accept the DBW pedal for the tdi
71PA_Highboy
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2010-15 prius was 3rd gen
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There's something to be said for slow and reliable. Throttle cable isn't the worst thing in the world to fab from scratch.
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I looked pretty heavily at Mazdas over the last year or so as a possible DD since they're one of the few things still being produced without a CVT. Only consistent thing I read being an issue with them was oil consumption on turbo models and even that seemed like it was just from lack of maintenance in most cases.
Couldn't bring myself to do it though. I'm going to drive what I want to drive and not settle for some commuter car I know I'll ultimately regret buying. I'll move closer to work or make more money if I really need the cost of commuting to be lower.
Couldn't bring myself to do it though. I'm going to drive what I want to drive and not settle for some commuter car I know I'll ultimately regret buying. I'll move closer to work or make more money if I really need the cost of commuting to be lower.
I imagine that little thing would roll the **** over from the sudden weight shift with him in it.
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I've seen more prius on the fire roads than the number of trails your jeep has been on.
Imagine not paying $400 a month extra in gas either. I'll take the big guy in a tiny car comments all the way to the bank.
The daily can be an appliance if you want to save money.....
I get that and struggled with the same thing. But zero regrets after the last 4 years and 60k+ mi. I used to commute cool old stuff or 3/4 ton trucks. It’s great to jump in this thing and rack up care free miles while saving fuel
Ummduh
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My previous dd commuter car was a Ford fusion. It didn't everything fine... But it was the only car I ever named, "the soul crusher".
I hated that car with every ounce of my being despite being a perfectly capable driver.
I can't drive a completely boring car no matter what. I loathed having to drive that thing.
I've been dd'ing a 15 focus st and it's turned out to be my favorite commuter ever. So much so that I made the wife buy something else so I didn't have to go back to driving a truck every day when we needed a bigger vehicle.
Alexis700
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Get a job where you drive a vehicle they pay for, and their gas.
Motorcharge
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You don't know who owned it before me.
I'm not knocking you or anyone else for driving something economical at all outside of ****ing with you just to **** with you. It's just not something I care about or going to do. I care more about driving something I like to drive than saving a few hundred bucks a month.
I don't spend $400/m in gas now either, it's about $280 with current gas prices. Even if it went to $0 I'm not driving something I don't like to save $3300 a year. Especially knowing I'm going to get a raise every year that offsets that completely.
Plus if I really needed another $400 a month I could go ask my boss and there's a 99% chance he'll just give it to me, I just don't because I don't and because they've been very generous about throwing money at me so far.
My wife had a 2016 Mazda6 with the auto. It regularly got 34mpg.
We loved that car, we put 100k+ totally trouble free miles on it. she bought it with 16k on it. I blasted a deer with it and insurance totaled it.
It was a well built car.
She ended up with a 4 banger Camry. it gets 38mpg. I feel like the Mazda had a better build quality than the camry.
We loved that car, we put 100k+ totally trouble free miles on it. she bought it with 16k on it. I blasted a deer with it and insurance totaled it.
It was a well built car.
She ended up with a 4 banger Camry. it gets 38mpg. I feel like the Mazda had a better build quality than the camry.
Penetrode Offroad
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I love the **** out of my civic. It has remarkably clean interior which helps the monotonous commute type stuff but its a slam in drive and go.
Went from DD'ing the 99 tacoma and have saved approx 2/3 the purchase price in gas already. Now when I get in the tacoma im like, this thing is a pile.
Thats because it was a ****ing fusion.
She hot?
DRTDEVL
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I figure my used Prius has more than paid for itself by now, even factoring in repairs and maintenance. 50 mpg average out of a car in which I have spent about $15k total for purchase, maintenance, tires, and repairs over the past 7 years and 107k miles. Had I been driving my pickup(s) at 16 mpg over that stretch, í would have used 4,548 more gallons at an average of $3.50, or $15,918 more in gasoline alone (not even considering maintenance, repairs, tires, etc).
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well hell it is 60hp and flyweight governed both at idle and at defuel
so if it ever broke then you'd just tie the pump wide open
maybe cycle the ignition when you reach 80mph (after about three minutes of flatshifting)