What would your second vehicle choice be after the Mirage??
I am currently new car shopping, which is why I have been lurking on this board for several months now, and occasionally posting.
I currently drive a 2002 Ford Focus, which I bought new and has 212,000 miles on it. I am about 6 weeks away from buying a new car and the Mirage is definitely on the short list.
My job plays a big part in the car I buy. I own and operate a hot dog cart business, and I use the Focus to tow the hot dog cart. I also work a second job delivering pizza. The plan is to keep the Focus for the hot dog gig and use the new car as my daily driver, plus to deliver pizza in. Of course I would put a hitch on the new car to use as an emergency backup.
I am shopping 5 different cars, and the way I have done the math, all 5 cars cost nearly the same after 10 years of driving... I tried to use fuelly.com to get to most accurate measure on the gas cost. I figured the gas at 20,000 miles a year at 3.50 a gallon.
MSRP 10 yr gas cost
2014 Versa SV 16,030 + 21,276 = 37,306
2014 Spark 14,305+ 18,041 = 32,346
2013 Insight 19,390+ 15,086 = 34,486
2013 Prius C 19,875+ 13,806 = 33,681
2014 Mirage 15,195+ 17,500 = 32,695
After over-analyzing this situation from just about every angle for about the last year I am actually starting to move towards the Honda Insight just a little bit, but I have not done test drives yet. My wife and I are going to do that in a couple weeks.
Thoughts? Criticisms? Suggestions? Cuss words?
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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)