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Thread #85254   Message #1578777
Posted By: Rapparee
08-Oct-05 - 10:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gas Prices???....
Subject: RE: BS: Gas Prices???....
Honda Civic, 30 - 35 mpg on the highway and 25 - 30 in town. Also a Honda Element, 25 - 30 mpg on the highway (this is my wife's car). My next car (probably around 2008) will most likely be a hybrid.

The Element is 4wd. We need that out here in The West. It's the first vehicle we've owned that got less than 30 mpg on the highway.

I object to 4wd vehicles where they're not needed -- the spotless Hummers in Chicago, the shiny Expeditions and Ford 350 dual-wheel, extended-cab pickups in the Loop, the clean Explorers in LA. I really can't object to a 350 pickup on a ranch outside of, say, Jerome, Idaho or a Yukon driven by Idaho Power.

As for Camrys -- I think that they're made by Toyota in Kentucky. There might be some discussion about Kentucky actually being part of the US, but it still was the last time I looked.

Hondas are made in Marysville, Ohio. Isuzu has a plant outside of Bloomington, Illinois (I think; I know they have a plant in the Midwest).