We are around $2.75, though I fill my tank on the reservation over in Poulsbo, so I pay about 20ยข less. I want to kick the sales guy who said "oh, the four wheel drive shouldn't effect your gas milage much, you should get the same as you got in your older two wheel drive version." (though, on the plus side environmentally, it is a tiny engine and has almost no emissions...)
The few times I have gotten to car shop the milage is my big questions as well. This time I -really- wanted to replace my pickup that had be wrecked by a hit and run driver while I was at work a few years before and just wanted the same thing. It was a little '89 toyota pickup (they were still called "pickup" then, they had not been given the name "tacoma" yet), about car sized and perfect for hauling stuff from here to there in a city setting. It got over 20 miles per gallong. Not a lot, but enough. When we went shopping there was not a two wheel drive version on any lot in Seattle. It does not help that the 4wheel drive version from that era are sexy as hell, so I ended up with a '93 (still "pickup"...I don't know when they switched over to "tacoma") It does not get over 20 miles per gallon. I'm glad it is 4 wheel drive though. I felt silly at first...I just drive on the street after all, and that does not help in any of the weather we have here, but the first winter I had it the weather was awful and highway 305 in Kitsap county is really a crummy, poorly banked road.
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Date: 2005-08-15 08:39 pm (UTC)The few times I have gotten to car shop the milage is my big questions as well. This time I -really- wanted to replace my pickup that had be wrecked by a hit and run driver while I was at work a few years before and just wanted the same thing. It was a little '89 toyota pickup (they were still called "pickup" then, they had not been given the name "tacoma" yet), about car sized and perfect for hauling stuff from here to there in a city setting. It got over 20 miles per gallong. Not a lot, but enough. When we went shopping there was not a two wheel drive version on any lot in Seattle. It does not help that the 4wheel drive version from that era are sexy as hell, so I ended up with a '93 (still "pickup"...I don't know when they switched over to "tacoma") It does not get over 20 miles per gallon. I'm glad it is 4 wheel drive though. I felt silly at first...I just drive on the street after all, and that does not help in any of the weather we have here, but the first winter I had it the weather was awful and highway 305 in Kitsap county is really a crummy, poorly banked road.
I still wish it got better mileage though.