I picked up a 2010 v4 looking for a daily alternative to my 5.9 Durango. Still got the gas hog for towing but I'm learning a new way to drive now. Even with getting a great price on it, the savings of fuel totally compensates the monthly cost!! In 4 days I would have had to fill the tank (on the tank) but driving this Toyota I'm still way above a half tank. Anyway, lurking here and learning alot. Also, heres a pic of the first load carried. 5 cases of the original caffinated Four Loko, 3 months after its been taken off the shelves.
:welcome:You will be pleasantly surprised when you go to fill up and see how much you've spent to go a given distance compared to your truck. It pains me a bit each time I add gas to my other car... :/
Congrats on your new Prius and more congrats on off-loading a Durango. I'd say you've made a real smart decision! My daughter used to have a Durango and I swear I could hear the gas gurgling through the engine! Enjoy the high MPGs.
Hey, twittle, Talk about gas gurgling through the engine, I drive two days a week at a car auction here in Connecticut & one day last year I had a big Dodge Durango that, I too swear, I could actually hear the gas being sucked into the engine like water gurgling down a drain. In fact, in the approximately one mile round trip from the storage area, down through the auction block, & back to the storage area, I ran out of gas 3 times. Of course the vehicles arrive at the auction with very little valuable gas still in the tanks & we're only allowed to get one gallon from a service truck each time you run out on that round trip. Just as another aside, I got some extremely bad mileage on another car one time. It was with my own 4-cylinder '67 Opel Kadett station wagon on the way to my friend's house only 3 miles away. I had started out in the freezing cold weather with a full tank of gas (the upright tank---with hardly any filler neck right behind the right rear quarter panel---held 10.2 gallons). By the time I got to his house, just those 3 miles had consumed half a tank of gas on the guage (& confirmed by a physical look inside the tank with---NO, NOT a match---a flashlight). For those 3 miles the car had run like a pig. But sitting for a few hours before leaving, the return trip to home was entirely normal with no rough running & hardly any additional gas used. I used to get about 30 MPG in that with the little 54 HP, 1.1 L. engine [standard carburetored version---NOT one of the other 2 versions (neither the bigger-jetted nor the dual-carb one)]. It always bothered me when a parts salesman would ask if my engine was a 1.5 L. engine or a 1.7 (or 1.9) liter engine. There were 3 different HP ratings for the 1.1 L. engine (depending on carburetor versions). But the only displacement available in 1967 was the 1.1 L. (the bigger displacement engines came in subsequent years). Sorry for rambling. Ken (in Bolton,Ct)
Ken, in my fleet management days, I used to get to auctions a couple times a month and more. I absolutely understand what you're saying about guzzlers, skimpy gas and big tanks! And it's just not trucks and SUVs. I remember some of those big Town Cars, Cadillacs and Crown Vics come through the lane. I used to call 'em floaters as they had the big cushy, soft, floaty ride down the highway. Yup, a floater, just like a turd bobbing on toilet water! LOL. I'm dating myself now. I like the expression, "Keep on truckin'..."; I just can't afford it anymore.
You know, the thousands of cases that were taken off the shelves were trucked to Virginia and converted to ethenol.
