Posted: 3/31/2008 2:56:51 PM EDT
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Are looking for a new or gently used (1 or 2 year old) vehicle that will fit the wife, myself our teenage son & daughter and the little neapolitan mastiff who thinks he owns the house while still getting decent gas millage. Would like to get something that gets better than 25-27mpg on the highway and the higher the better!! Is this a pipe dream?? should we get a land yacht that sucks gas instead??? |
Yesterday was Jeep trail rig day. Today, we're discussing the suspension articulation required to negotiate flower beds. |
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We traded in our Windstar for a Ford Freestyle (crossover) a couple of years ago (we got 40k miles on it). It gets 25-27mpg on the highway fully loaded here on the East Coast (relatively level ground). Around the city we get 17-19 mpg. It can seat up to 6 and still has some cargo room behind the folddown 3rd seat. I recommend getting one of the models with captain's chairs for the center row (they recline and you stop the 'Dad he's/she's hogging the seat' whines from the kids). Think of it as a station wagon that sits a bit higher than normal. |