A post I never wanted to make

Docwagon1776 · Oct 29, 2012

If you are looking at a hybrid for financial reasons, unless you drive an absolute ton of miles and are keeping it for 10 years or so, its not the smart move. Compare the purchase price of a Camry Hybrid vs a Camry non-hybrid, for example. It takes over 150,000 miles before the added cost of the Hybrid pays for the gas savings.

The Hybrid Vehicle Break Even Calculator | Calculators and Tools and you can play around with the numbers.

If you are trying to dig yourself out of debt, a good value used car, like Ford Fusion or Toyota Camry, is a much better way to help yourself out than a hybrid.

Birddog · Oct 29, 2012

Docwagon1776 said:
If you are looking at a hybrid for financial reasons, unless you drive an absolute ton of miles and are keeping it for 10 years or so, its not the smart move.

Absolutely correct. I commute more than 50K miles per year just for work. After my research was over even I didn't buy a hybrid. I got a VW Jetta diesel. That diesel should last much longer than a hybrid and I can average 45 mpg on the highway. I wish I could do that with my Ram. Ha!!

TheMaddog · Oct 29, 2012

Don't blame ya. Gotta do what you gotta do, hit up Craigslist or something. Maybe you could get a little Beamer or something for around that much. Maybe a Honda.

zuiquan1 · Nov 14, 2012

Oh hey I'm back!

So I ended up getting an 08 Nissan Sentra, nice little car and was pretty well optioned out.(ease the pain of switching lol) I was able to cut my payments completely in half and went up to 35mpg.

Its not a Ram and has zero power, but she'll do. I'll probably put a sub in it and call it a day. Dont have any aspirations to do any mods on this one(which is probably a good thing)

Some pics-

Hemi-in-it · Nov 14, 2012

Best Wishes

You can take the person out of the truck, but you can't take the truck out of the person. Best wishes.

2nazt · Nov 14, 2012

congrats on the new purchase, and total respect for you fixing the problem and stepping up. The ram's will be here waiting for you to get back, don't worry. Best of luck getting everything straightened out

MK12RAM · Nov 14, 2012

I owned a nissan sentra. Pretty good little car. Very reliable and easy to work on. I have some family that has well over 100k of HARD MILESTONE on his and it still runs good.

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audio1der · Nov 15, 2012

Props to you for stepping up and taking the bull by the horns.
My '01 Sentra has 247,000km of HARD "miles" ranging from hard street driving to full-out auto-X seasons up to Regional finals. It has been near bullet proof. Hope yours treats you as wekll for as long as you need it.

pmaru77 · Nov 28, 2012

I don't know how old you are, but I waited 62 years to get a gas guzzling big hunk of metal PU. I drove small econo vehicles many years. Buying something to be cool is so uncool to me. But diff strokes. Talk about uncool, I drove a full size van for building materials, and it was a v10 guzzler. No cool person drives a van (real van) right? Mind you, it was 10 years old when I got it, not brand new like the RAM.

You are coming to your senses, AND THAT IS HUGE. Assuming you are not 62 years old, you will be back some day driving a RAM when the time is right.

:fishing1:

for fish ...not words.

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