For my family, the Mirage represents part one of a three part plan to own highly efficient vehicles with relative low cost of ownership.
Currently, the Mirage represents our "new" vehicle, used as a daily driver by me, plus for business, plus family vacation car. My wife, who never asks for anything new and is normally quite utilitarian, is totally hung up on getting a new Malibu hybrid. She has been for over a year now, and she can afford it, so that will be happening soon.
A bit longer term, I'd like to picked up a used EV for business purposes. Even though I don't think the light duty towing I do is hurting my Mirage. I'd much rather put those miles on the powertrain of a used car. This would retire the Mirage to tertiary duty as pizza delivery car, my part time second job.
If this all works out as planned, I can see hanging on to the Mirage for some 10-15 years. Of course, in the likely event we see a gas price spike over the next decade a gently used high mileage Mirage could fetch a decent enough price to let it go. Never say never.
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View my fuel log 2015 Mirage ES 1.2 automatic: 35.4 mpg (US) ... 15.1 km/L ... 6.6 L/100 km ... 42.6 mpg (Imp)