All items I've thought of, but the XFi and HF's and VX's(haven't looked much for the HX's) are first off, all still 10-20 years old and beyond that, they seem to be rarer than hens teeth. I've had searches up for more than a year now and in total I think I've seen maybe one HF that hadn't had an engine swap and it was in an accident. I think I've seen a single XFi and the guy wanted like $7K for it. I think maybe I've seen one or two VX's that hadn't had engine swaps and they had other problems.
As for being easier to fix? Potentially... I had a CRX Si about 10 years ago and IT was getting hard to find certain parts for. I can't imagine it's improved in 10 years. And they did need work. It remains to be seen how reliable the Prius' are. I've seen several people with more than 200K miles on them(top was 280K miles), only really seeing sporadic issues with them really and you can see that with the other cars. You've got to watch the spare tire area on the CRX's cause they collect water and rust out... I've already looked and I can find used replacement parts for the Prius' at reasonable cost. Generally in the same ballpark as the used parts would be for the other cars... As for mileage? Yeah, they're all in the same ballpark. It all comes down to how you drive any of them. From everything I can tell, the Prius is hard to get below 40mpg, except in the middle of winter in NY you might get it down to 35mpg. If you drive WITH the car, you can see close to 60mpg with good conditions. The others can be close to that too, it just all depends. My brother had an HF and he never saw even 40mpg with it... Really the only other car vaguely in my sights at the moment are still the TDi's, but the wife would prefer the Prius cause she doesn't want a stick tranny and I'm not getting an auto TDi. The Jetta Wagons are too expensive so there's no real advantage there. Basically, I'm getting hooked on the ideas of generating power down my hill every day and driving distances without the engine running and other techy stuff. Not to mention that also for the wife's sake, the gas pumps are usually pretty clean, whereas the diesel pumps are usually not... Levi On 8/1/07, Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Levi Smith wrote: > > I want something newer that's about as cheap as it can be on fuel > without > > being a hassle. > > Then how about some proven technology, like a Geo Metro XFI or Honda CRX > HF, > either of which get more MPG and are easier to fix than a Toyota Priapism. > There's also the Honda Civic VX and HX, which are about equal to the > Toyota > in mpg. > > Mitch. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
