You're not really looking at the numbers here, you're saying 20 isn't that much more than 15 but it is 33 1/3% after all.
In reality you've made my point again, you've got a 12 year old truck you've driven 66k, not even 6k a year, you're not a diesel truck person. A diesel person drives 25,000 miles or MORE a year. Going back to Jamie I've been suggesting a gas truck from the beginning, something basic with maybe even a v6. On the car front, how much do you drive? The same equation above continues to apply except the Jetta and Prius are pretty much the same price. I happen to think the Jetta is MUCH more fun to drive, its faster, and handles better and if you drive mostly highway probably gets better mileage. If you drive mostly city the Prius is probably a better choice. OK Don will tell you the Passat gets better mileage than the Jetta (its also less prone to HPFP problems and doesn't go through a filter regen cycle although it does require DEF), is roomier and overall probably a better car for a couple grand more. -Curt Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:04:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Hattaway <rhatta...@rocketmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Truck for Jamiey Message-ID: <1379459051.36987.yahoomail...@web161003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 True, but we're talking about Ford F-250's. ?There is not a significant mileage difference between the gas and the diesel versions. ?Mine gets 14 towing the boat, 15 on the road. ?A diesel gets 20. I was going to be out $4K up front. ? Maintenance on an F-250 Diesel is very expensive. ?At the 2001 price, I was just not interested in spending the extra 4K$. ?Plus I didn't want the cost of the huge air filter or the dual big batteries. So right now, using 3.45 for gas, 3.90 for diesel, pretty accurate where I am, and 66K miles, and 15 mpg for gas and 20 mpg for diesel, I get that I would have spent $2310 less in fuel now than I have. ?However, I had to spend 4K$ for the ability to save that money. I realize that it's not an amazing amount of money I'm saving 12 years later, but I've had absolutely no issues with the truck, gas works fine, I've pulled a 300TD from Atlanta to here, etc etc. Now if you want to look at little cars, I am thinking about either a new Jetta TDI or a new Prius. ?I am back to thinking about gas vs diesel, and your numbers have more validity. ?I've rented both cars, and find they are very similiar as far as utility is concerned. ?Now I have to make the decision about gas and diesel again. ? _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
