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Oh are we comparing cars now? Story time.
My daily driver is a 2003 Cavalier. They were basically marketed as disposable cars, meant for new drivers. Mine is a 2.2L 4 cylinder. It currently has 265,000 miles, on the original engine, original transmission, original radiator, original clutch and I just replaced the original starter. Bonus points for having it be the car I learned how to drive a stick on and still have the original clutch. Over the years I've been doing less and less maintenance on it because the car isn't really worth it. It should probably have new tires but then the tires will be worth more than the car. The last set of tires we got were used because we didn't expect it to last this long.
It is as far from loaded as possible. No power locks, no power windows, no tilt, no cruise, no tape deck or CD player just AM/FM. The wipers don't even have a delay.
It has many things wrong with it, like having the instrument cluster flake out at times, and the front bumper being held on by several zip ties. It was rear ended when I was stopped at a light so the trunk is a bit messed up. And I was hit in a parking lot and a corner panel is smashed in. The gas door rusted off, and actually the whole underside is quite rusted (this is Michigan, lots of salt and snow). Oh and the airbags are deployed, I couldn't quite tell if this is illegal, or not, some say yes some say no. But it rides mostly smooth, doesn't have a check engine light, and still gets about 35MPG. If I sold it no one would give much for it, but it is worth driving it to and from work to keep miles down on my backup vehicle. I'll just drive it into the round and scrap it out when it dies.
@Hooovahh wrote:
Oh are we comparing cars now? Story time.
My daily driver is a 2003 Cavalier....
The gas door rusted off, and actually the whole underside is quite rusted (this is Michigan, lots of salt and snow).... I'll just drive it into the round and scrap it out when it dies.
I have had to fight with the rust around my wife's. She planning to replace it soon.
Ben
Ben wrote:
I have had to fight with the rust around my wife's. She planning to replace it soon.
Is that bondo? Nice.
Intaris wrote:
Ps Looking at the mpg values for the Passat on a government site in the US gives a rating of 34 MPG for the car I had. I got WAY better fuel economy than that, more like 50MPG (both versions with 130 HP and around 300Nm Torque). I don't know if you guys get different versions of the cars or if your Diesel is so different but that's a world of difference.
And that's what really confuses/disappoints me.
Sure, my pickup gets 10mpg. Terrible, right...
A little 4-cyl with a third of the weight gets 30-40.
I could put the weight of two of those cars behind my truck, and still get ~10mpg.
Weight moved over distance per gallon of fuel, my truck's doing pretty dang well compared to those cars now.
Tractor-trailers do even better.
Locomotives are off the chart.
My snowmobile's about 150hp. 
