81 model Daihatsu Charade - it's about nearly 5 ft high.
It's light and gets about 50-55 mpg on the highway - 60mph/100kmh, even when 'fully' loaded - 1-2 adults and packed to the window line with luggage and the back seat down. The motor, gearbox & transaxle have had the "Slick50" treatment - noticeably lower mechanical noise, and less friction that gave about 10% increase in fuel economy.
I normally only travel at about 60 mph/100 kmh, of course less when signed. Too many past surprises with radar units to bother going faster. This time I was mostly at 80 kmh (50 mph) up to a bit faster in spots, no stops - last few 10 kms was as 50 mph - city roads, but little obstructing traffic, except last km up to the house.
For the quantity, the extra fuel much was cheaper than trying to find some way of getting freight undamaged about 120km. The bars/try is the easiest for me.
Good to see your comments again.
"big trucks actually do do it better than you can for commercial-sized loads"
We do have a sort of madness in Aust - I know of a full load of mattresses being sent from Toowoomba factory to Sydney, 1 mattress removed, then the rest backloaded to Toowoomba - 2 kms down the road from the factory... most 'local depots' have been shut down, and 'capital city' (and often usually only Sydney) depots only. May be ok for the USA, but it is stupid for Oz, because of the massively greater distances, and only 6 states, roughly same land mass area. Eg, magazines here in Brisbane (and all the rest of Qld - look at a scaled map!) are returned to Sydney at the end of the month's display, then have to be brought back if past issues ordered. But most back issues are just pulped... the Brisbane depot was shut years ago... It's actually easier and cheaper to buy the back issues from the US or UK publishers DIRECT!!! - even by air mail!