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Non- Prius Gas Gripe

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by olends, May 19, 2004.

  1. olends

    olends New Member

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    i dont own a prius i wish i did, i wish i could afford one, i'd buy a classic. i truely love this car.

    but the car i do drive is a 92 pontiac bonneville with 122k. it takes 92 octane cause of its age. i put in $25 worth of 92 at 2.25/gal it got me 3.4 of a tank.

    be proud of your cars, i sure am. reading all the fun you are having is getting to the point of depression.

    sorry for rant
    thank you
     
  2. rflagg

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    Sorry to depress you, but feel free to live vicariously through us all - perhaps your time will come when the stars will align and you'll be able to get one, and then you'll never want another car again! :)

    -m.
     
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    Not to depress you either but rather to sympathize, I gave up my 94 Bonneville with over 130,000 miles on it when I got my Prius (after a 6 month wait). I was getting 22mpg, the airconditioning was broke and the car would randomly stall at times. Now I am averaging about 51mpg on the same commute, have the temperature set at my comfort and rarely think about the Bonneville at all. Oh, I guess in a sense the Prius still seemingly randomly stalls but now its a perk not a fault.
     
  4. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    I'm not normally an optimist, but in this case I am: In 5 or 6 years Toyota will come out with something even better than the '04 Prius. That'll be my next car and I'll like it even better. If I live that long. (And it'll probably have features we haven't thought of yet, but that the Toyota engineers are working at as I write this.) (Who'd have though of SS/SE a decade ago?)