Anonymous
Post 04/15/2025 08:44     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:They are considering other features besides energy. Thats all.

This. My sons are both 6'+, my sedan was dying, and prices were going up. I went from a sedan to a used mid size suv. Yes, it uses more fuel but it is safe and my kids fit in it.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2025 08:36     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
1. Car companies need to stop charging extra for hybrid/electric like they are trim features.

2. Charging needs to become a hell of a lot easier than it is now.

When those two are resolved I’ll buy hybrid or electric. As it is now, it would take be 10 years to recoup the additional cost for the hybrid or electric engine.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2025 07:48     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:NP, also drive less than 4k miles a year, but that still includes driving DC to and from school each day. When you fill up your tank once a month, the difference is truly trivial. But now I have ventilated seats, which is not trivial in this heat.


This forum devoted to people who are interested in cars has an impressive number of people who rarely use their cars.


It also shows up on “Recent Topics” like everything else so you are getting a range of answers, and plenty of normies who want to reply. Do you want “average consumers” or “people interested in cars”? You can’t even decide. Anyone can respond.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 17:44     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Absolutely, we buy the biggest engine we can so we can zoom zoom.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 17:41     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:NP, also drive less than 4k miles a year, but that still includes driving DC to and from school each day. When you fill up your tank once a month, the difference is truly trivial. But now I have ventilated seats, which is not trivial in this heat.


This forum devoted to people who are interested in cars has an impressive number of people who rarely use their cars.


You're responding to me. My last car (which I still have) is 13 years old and was purchased at a time I was commuting 80 miles a day. Then COVID, WFH, and a family happened. Life happens, circumstances change, needs change. Doesn't mean you stop caring about things.


Of course not. I’m just noting that for a forum that usually features tons of haughty car enthusiasts who have many cars and drive constantly (according to them) this post has found a surprising number of people who claim to barely drive.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 17:15     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:NP, also drive less than 4k miles a year, but that still includes driving DC to and from school each day. When you fill up your tank once a month, the difference is truly trivial. But now I have ventilated seats, which is not trivial in this heat.


This forum devoted to people who are interested in cars has an impressive number of people who rarely use their cars.


You're responding to me. My last car (which I still have) is 13 years old and was purchased at a time I was commuting 80 miles a day. Then COVID, WFH, and a family happened. Life happens, circumstances change, needs change. Doesn't mean you stop caring about things.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 17:05     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:NP, also drive less than 4k miles a year, but that still includes driving DC to and from school each day. When you fill up your tank once a month, the difference is truly trivial. But now I have ventilated seats, which is not trivial in this heat.


This forum devoted to people who are interested in cars has an impressive number of people who rarely use their cars.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 17:04     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:All these people who are like "I only drive 5k a year"... why are you buying a car?


Why? I keep my cars at least 15-20 years. Of course I usually buy based on gas mileage as well.


You realize you're not the typical car buyer? Your answer isn't really helpful.


DP but what is “helpful” here? There is no massive social point, it’s an online forum. The PP is sharing their perspective which is as valid as anyone else’s.



I mean, it should be obvious the question is directed, generally, at the typical consumer... not an extremely unusual consumer who rarely uses their car and keeps it for 15+ years longer than the average person. Their answers, while interesting, are very, very unusual and not very helpful for someone trying to understand what most consumers do.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 16:55     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
NP, also drive less than 4k miles a year, but that still includes driving DC to and from school each day. When you fill up your tank once a month, the difference is truly trivial. But now I have ventilated seats, which is not trivial in this heat.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 16:48     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:All these people who are like "I only drive 5k a year"... why are you buying a car?


Why? I keep my cars at least 15-20 years. Of course I usually buy based on gas mileage as well.


You realize you're not the typical car buyer? Your answer isn't really helpful.


DP but what is “helpful” here? There is no massive social point, it’s an online forum. The PP is sharing their perspective which is as valid as anyone else’s.

Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 16:46     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It just seems so phenomenally stupid - oil is a finite resource.


What if you went from a couple to a family with kids? Traded in your two door speck for a minivan with worse gas mileage but allowed you to carry more passengers? (Then your gas consumption per passenger goes down)

Not phenomenally stupid. Just practical.


Well you nailed it - the gas consumption is going down. Obviously we’re talking like for like.

I just got a crv hybrid and it’s so much better than a regular crv and I thought about some of the fun new suvs that are out there but they’d be a significant downgrade in mileage - there’s been a slight dip in cost lately but it’s going to be $1-3 more per gallon by the end life of the car, it just seemed dumb.


How much extra did you pay for the difference between a regular and hybrid?


about $6k, but it also nicer trim, so it's hard to say what the actual difference for the hybrid is (I'm sure there's a way, but I'm not going to do it right now).

if gas prices stay where they are, based on how much we drive, we'll about break even... but gas prices aren't going to stay the same, they're going to go up.


They are going down.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 16:46     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bigger/safer/tows more


You know what is the best at towing? Electric.

No kidding. They have far more torque.


lol, what a moron. No, they are not better. Also, have fun pulling a trailer full of horses into a charging station.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 16:44     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:All these people who are like "I only drive 5k a year"... why are you buying a car?


That is a stupid question. Because I need one. I live 3 miles from the grocery store and 10 miles from my kids’ school, and there is no bus or public transportation in my area.


And you live in DC?

Anyway, you should at least be leasing.


Why? It makes even less sense to lease. I drive my cars 15-20 years, and pay cash. Leasing is just throwing money away for an asset I don’t care about. I would drive a Yugo and be fine with it, I simply don’t care about it cars.
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 16:43     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bigger/safer/tows more


You know what is the best at towing? Electric.

No kidding. They have far more torque.


I'm sorry you don't understand physics
Anonymous
Post 04/14/2025 16:42     Subject: Why would you buy a car with worse gas mileage than you currently get?
Anonymous wrote:Bigger/safer/tows more


You know what is the best at towing? Electric.

No kidding. They have far more torque.