Toyota sandbagging the Yaris

[why?]

Originally Posted by KrazyDawg

I created the following in an excel spreadsheet. If gas were $3/gal with x number of miles at x MPG.

MPG	Annual	
	15,000	
35	$1,285.71	
36	$1,250.00	
37	$1,216.22	
38	$1,184.21	
39	$1,153.85	
40	$1,125.00	
	20,000	
35	$1,714.29	
36	$1,666.67	
37	$1,621.62	
38	$1,578.95	
39	$1,538.46	
40	$1,500.00	
	25,000	
35	$2,142.86	
36	$2,083.33	
37	$2,027.03	
38	$1,973.68	
39	$1,923.08	
40	$1,875.00	
	30,000	
35	$2,571.43	
36	$2,500.00	
37	$2,432.43	
38	$2,368.42	
39	$2,307.69	
40	$2,250.00

Okay, you win for going the whole way, but could you up it to say 45 mpg, instead of leaving it at just 40?

Originally Posted by fnkngrv

That right there is similar with what HTM and Cali are saying...everyone makes a choice, you have to balance comfort/convenience with your end goal. I can drive this car hard and still get over 32mpg all day long with a stock engine. To me that is priceless. My best friend which I consider the brother I never had drives a 99 pontiac grand am 3800 HO which is stock for him. If he drives that hard he gets 15mpg if he is lucky! Sure they are two different cars completely, but the mentality is the same...he could care less about 15mpg if he enjoys the car and has comfort/convenience which he feels he does. Different strokes for different folks.


As for the comments about sitting at lunch with the A/C going....yup, I did something like that saturday night. I was at the local bar and it was hotter than hade's nipples in there. I sat in my car more than once for 15-20 min to cool down...once again...comfort/convenience. Now where I draw the line is SUVs. Until they can come up with a way to get them to 30mpg or the equivalent without costing the buyer 50-100k as far as I am concerned they are extremely wasteful and need to be crushed at the junk yard. A soccer mom with 2 kiddies can get the same comfort/convenience and safety in other more efficient vehicles, but nope, 9 times out of 10 is it that status crap that plaques our society. But, I digress...different strokes for different folks...

SUV's most definitely have their uses. You might be able to take 2 kids to soccer practice in a Yaris, but could you take them, 2 of their friends, a dozen soccer balls, oh and tow the boat or jetski's on the weekends, or maybe you and your wife take a family friend or two with their spouses to dinner, or maybe help your child move into college 1500 miles away, etc.