So I’m in the market for a new car. “New” or actually new. I happen to really like Fords, my grandfather was a chief Ford engineer, it’s what I grew up driving in. The Ford Escape has been my “dream car” for some reason for a long time, but now the Ford C-Max SE Hybrid has caught my eye. It’s wishfu…

It's just not worth it at this point to most people, unless they plan to keep the vehicle far longer than 100,000 miles A good number of people here (including myself) keep their vehicles for well past 100k miles…try 300k miles. So for those of us who do…a hybrid is a good choice…even if you have t…

Lunds? You a Minneapolis boy? Ask about heat in the winter. I really don’t know anything about them except I don’t buy futures so buy what fits your needs now and in the next few years. If you do a huge amount of city driving maybe, but otherwise, its hard to beat 30 plus miles on the highway or…

@texases Not really all that misleading when you consider that you probably won’t actually get 51mpg around town. We had a fleet of them at work, and we never got anywhere close, even when we used eco mode, which was so slow that I thought I was gonna be hit by oncoming traffic when I turned left a …

My brother is averaging 50 mpg lifetime with his. I’m at 38 with my MKZ. If your folks didn’t get around 50 it’s likely because they weren’t dring them full time. It takes a while to get used to the best techniques. And the folks reporting to the EPA web site are averaging 49 mpg for 2010 - 2012. S…

Also it’s worth considering that charging one of these with an extension cord out the window is not particularly safe, unless it’s a very hefty cord and plugged into a dedicated circuit. To charge a plug-in hybrid in a reasonable amount of time takes a LOT of current, kind of the same as if you wer…

@shadowfax Your calculations make sense. A prius only makes sense if you keep it a long time or drive a lot. I could never make the figures work for me since I don’t drive enough and the car would die of old age before it would pay for itself. It has to be compared to a compact sedan with a 4 cylind…

@shadowfax - not sure how I was being ‘snippy’, just pointing out facts. As for the CRX, they were great, fun, cars, but any 1800 lb car from that era is going to be less safe than the cars we’re discussing. I drove an '83 GTI for 12 years. I’m alive, but that has nothing to do with whether the '…

@texases The problem with denigrating older cars as “the driving safety equivalent of an aluminum can” is that it leads to an arms race mentality. Sure, my '07 Acura is “safer” than my '91 CRX (although only in an actual collision - as far as avoiding a collision by maneuvering quickly, I’ll take th…

Hmmm…on a fatalities per mile driven (isn’t that the right way to look at it?) we’re MUCH better off, 80% lower than we were in the '50s…

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@texases No need to be snippy. And you’re flat out wrong about the safety of a CRX. Just because something isn’t a 3000 pound rolling fortress doesn’t mean it’s not safe. I’ve had 4, and I have yet to be killed in any of them.

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