About $1000/year sound right?

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I've been doing some napkin math on my mpg and comparing it to real world mpg I would be getting if I went to the opposite extreme in vehicle size, which in this example would be a honda civic turbo 1.5L. basically by the looks of it I'd be spending about $1000/year less on gas. Does that sound right to you?

I actually expected a bigger difference but I guess when you look at a 5 year loan $5000 is nothing to sneeze at. Just checking because now that my 2 year long reno project is coming near an end I find I'm going 2 months at a time between putting anything meaningful in the back of my truck now. Might be time to scale down, and I've been feeling the pinch of a 100km round trip commute to work lately
 

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Well I don't know what the highway mileage works out to, but I looked at the overall averages of the 1.5L vs the hemi. The 1.5L averages 6.9 L/100 KMS. The hemi averages 15.02 L/100 09 kms. Both 2016 models.

Civic cost over 30,000 kms

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Ram Hemi cost over 30,000 kms

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Just for fun I added the Ecodiesel which averages 10.17 L/100 KMS for 2016.

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Civic saves $2431 per 30,000 kms over the Hemi.

Ecodiesel saves $1500 per year over the Hemi.

I used the fuel prices in my area with diesel being 2-10 cents per litre cheaper than regular gas.

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roadshow

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Well I don't know what the highway mileage works out to, but I looked at the overall averages of the 1.5L vs the hemi. The 1.5L averages 6.9 L/100 KMS. The hemi averages 15.02 L/100 09 kms. Both 2016 models.

Civic cost over 30,000 kms

3a561492cf0309bb9a2d88822b34ca60.png

Ram Hemi cost over 30,000 kms

9f0adb1fecd5e394e3a1e73d4d27e1df.png

Just for fun I added the Ecodiesel which averages 10.17 L/100 KMS for 2016.

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Civic saves $2431 per 30,000 kms over the Hemi.

Ecodiesel saves $1500 per year over the Hemi.

I used the fuel prices in my area with diesel being 2-10 cents per litre cheaper than regular gas.

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The numbers are slightly different from what I'm seeing here but not a lot. Going by the numbers I got from that calculator would show closer to a $1500/year savings
 

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The numbers are slightly different from what I'm seeing here but not a lot. Going by the numbers I got from that calculator would show closer to a $1500/year savings
I must have been looking at the wrong engine on Fuelly for the civic. What's the average L/100 KMS of the civic you're looking at?

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