Is your 100 your daily driver?

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patrickfinley

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This has probably been discussed over and over, but with recent gas rate hikes I suppose it's a current topic.

How many of you on here use your 100 as your DD? Do you have far to go? Are you squirming a bit with these current higher prices that are going to continue to go higher? It's never a good sign when the summer fuel hike starts in January.

My tank was pretty low and it cost me over $70 to fill it up with mid grade. We didn't buy these to be fuel sippers, but ouch! I've been entertaining the idea of taking my wife's Highlander to work instead. It gets almost 10mpg more. I figure my bonus is that my wife drives almost nowhere so my LC will be preserved with lower mileage.
 
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Currently, yes the 100 is my daily driver. However, I drive it to work at the beginning of my work week and it gets left at the office since I have a take home car. This offsets the fuel costs by quite a bit...I only drive it a couple of times a week and then a little bit on my weekends.

However, my wife has made the suggestion that I start taking her Fusion to work since we've been getting some nasty weather here lately, and as much as I hate to give up the keys to my rig, she has a very reasonable point. Theres no reason to leave our only 4x4 at work during snow season, even if it means paying higher gas costs. I'd rather have her and the kids riding around safe and sound in the urban assault vehicle. :)

You're right though, I wasn't expecting to see gas prices get so high so soon. Makes me nervous for this summer...
 
I use y hundy as a daily driver. Switching cars is not really an option for me because we have two hundys and a gx470 at home...all are v8 and 4.7L gas guzzlers. I just lay off the gas pedal and use cruise control everytime I use the freeway. I read somewhere the pressing the "pwr" near the shifter can increase mpgs, not sure if this is true because I have not tried it.
 
Gas is still a small percentage of what it costs to run these vehicles. If you can't afford the gas you probably can't afford the 100.
 
Fuzz are you in a car or truck at work? Are you state or local?

I guess it makes sense to have the kids in the LC as opposed to a Fusion, especially during snow season in Co. I feel the same about our kids, our Highlander is a very safe vehicle but I feel the LC would fair better in a collision. The downside is I don't feel nearly as cool pulling into the work parking lot in my wife's ride.
 
ginericLC said:
Gas is still a small percentage of what it costs to run these vehicles. If you can't afford the gas you probably can't afford the 100.
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GinericLC you're dead wrong and that is a very poor assumption.
 
Daily driver for me, gas is killing me as I'm in college. It's not a very budget friendly vehicle. Unfortunately in the next couple months the gas price could possibly force me into something smaller. I have done modifications that murder mpg's (not that it was going to win any awards in that department any time soon). My parents help me a little with gas, majority of the gas is what I make at work during the breaks and summer. Which kills my "breaks", but I really don't care. Rather do something than sit on my ass and play video games.

We all have our hobbies and loves, sometimes we must give them up for a later date when one can afford them without affecting there lifestyle. The 100 does a very good job at affecting mine, it's taken a rather large hole out of my wallet in gas cost, repairs, and going on my little adventures into the mountains of N.GA. I could stop wheeling it, but what's the point of driving something that gets 10mpg in the city and not enjoy it? Might as well sell it and get something that suits that purpose alot better.
 
patrickfinley said:
Fuzz are you in a car or truck at work? Are you state or local?
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My take home is a Ford Expedition. I'm a local yokel for now, looking to move up to the county level some time soon though. With all the idling and stop/go that we do, those things only average 6-8mpg. I guess thats the price you pay if you want 24/7 coverage in snow season. The council members and mayor always bitch about us driving SUVs in the summertime, then the snow flies and it shuts them up for another couple of months.

At least the Expos don't run on 91 octane. :mad:
 
DD. It's even worse up here in Canada where I'm currently paying $5.13 for premium. But getting a second car and paying for the extra insurance (about $1500/year with all discounts available) doesn't make sense either.
 
DD for me, fortunately though i am in school and we have public transportation to campus from the end of my street. i do drive it when i have errands to run when the weather is bad. i live in durango and for any of you that have ever been here it is pretty small, i ride my bike a lot. the hundy is mostly driven where it should be...in the mountains or when the weather is bad.
 
patrickfinley said:
GinericLC you're dead wrong and that is a very poor assumption.
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He's not that far off - do the math... 12K miles/year average. 13 MPG mixed = 923 gallons of gas. Compared to my Avalon that gets 24 MPG mixed at 12K miles/year = 500 gallons of gas. I'm paying for an extra 423 gallons per year, at $3/gal = $1,269 extra per year to drive the Cruiser ~ $105 per month. Take into account mods, maintenance, insurance, and most of all a $60K purchase price and gas isn't all that... If you compare it to even a more moderate SUV or car that gets 20 MPG, you're talking even less additional gas $ per month. If $100 bucks a month dissuades you from DD'ing your 100, you have to question why you'd let a vehicle who's current market value is between $13-45K (1998-2007 values -approx) just sit in the driveway and not be sold off. There are other reasons for it not being a DD, of course.

My wife DD's the 100, I DD the Avalon.
 
Mine is my DD currently but I am looking for a sedan to drive on trips and during the week so my 100 can get some upgrades!
 
As of late, I have been commuting in with the wife, just to give us a few more minutes together without the kids screaming at us. Other than that, I trade off between the 100 and the 80. The hundy gets better gas mileage right now and will end up being my DD because I am about to tear in to the 80 and fix a couple of things there, while I have the opportunity to not have to rely on it. As soon as my son gets his license he is going to want to drive it daily, but that won't probably come until next September when his older brother has graduated from HS and he is driving himself to school and activities.

As for Gineric's comment - I agree that gas is a small portion of the overall $$$ we spend on these trucks. Do two things to the engine... just about any two, or a major service... and you have spent enough for a year's worth of gas, but then again, I live in Idaho and not Cali. Been there done that... not again.
 
2000UZJ said:
Daily driver for me, gas is killing me as I'm in college. It's not a very budget friendly vehicle. Unfortunately in the next couple months the gas price could possibly force me into something smaller. I have done modifications that murder mpg's (not that it was going to win any awards in that department any time soon). My parents help me a little with gas, majority of the gas is what I make at work during the breaks and summer. Which kills my "breaks", but I really don't care. Rather do something than sit on my ass and play video games.

We all have our hobbies and loves, sometimes we must give them up for a later date when one can afford them without affecting there lifestyle. The 100 does a very good job at affecting mine, it's taken a rather large hole out of my wallet in gas cost, repairs, and going on my little adventures into the mountains of N.GA. I could stop wheeling it, but what's the point of driving something that gets 10mpg in the city and not enjoy it? Might as well sell it and get something that suits that purpose alot better.
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Are you seriously thinking about getting rid of your LC?
 
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