new ride / tdi / mpg / etc

[Vincent Gelinas]

I bought a brand new car recently, and as the local dub dealer wouldn't
finance me, the local chev dealer would, so I ended up with an Inferno
Orange Sonic LT 1.8 hatchback with a 5 spd (decently nice car with veryyyyy
bright headlights).  I don't drive lightly and average about 35.  The other
day, driving lightly, I was able to hit 45 mpg or so on back roads.  You
can get reasonable mileage with gassers ;)

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:58 PM, thejimrose <thejimrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> with a  nod to tony, the tdi's are crazy $$ in the used market, esp here in
> sf. you could probably do a nice business bringing them in from other parts
> of the us and marking them up. mk4 vw's with 1-200k are going for 10-15k.
> serious. bananas. where a 2.0 is 3-5k.
>
> i would stay very far away from a c4. tempting as cheap but IMO it's the
> typ44 part deux. then again i would say the same about a highly modified
> b5s4 and i just bought one so.... do as i say not as i do.
>
> the mk4 gti's definitely had a rep for turdyness and shoddy build. i would
> still consider one as a cheap runner. honestly if i were advising the most
> car for the least $ with good mpg's id look at a 2.5 mk5 rabbit. my
> brothers gets the better of 30mpg in mixed driving and i think was about
> $12k nearly brand new. similar golf tdi would be high teens / low 20's
> here. i see rabbits w/ reasonable miles here way under 10k.
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