Short Circuit's Journal: Car Change?

My car is a 1991 Plymouth Voyager, and I need to replace it. I would be shocked if someone wanted to pay the $675 trade-in price for it. It leaks oil, power steering fluid and transmission fluid. It has a severely cracked windshield and no center rear-view mirror. The paint started peeling about ten years ago, and there's a lot of rust. The engine doesn't have much compression left.

For the replacement vehicle, here are my requirements:

• Good gas milage. Better than 20 mpg is a must. 25+ preferred.
• Cargo space, either in the vehicle or on a trailer. My car is usually used to haul our garbage to the dump. To this end, I took out all the removable seats.

I'm looking for suggestions...

Sir Mix-a-lot

[smittyoneeach]

My car is a 1991 Plymouth Voyager, and I need to replace it. I would be shocked if someone wanted to pay the $675 trade-in price for it. It leaks oil, power steering fluid and transmission fluid. It has a severely cracked windshield and no center rear-view mirror. The paint started peeling about ten years ago, and there's a lot of rust. The engine doesn't have much compression left.
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I'm looking for suggestions...

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Re:Sir Mix-a-lot

[TechnoLust]

Another Mix-a-lot fan? I knew I friended you for a reason. ;-)

D00d

[smittyoneeach]

Buddy and I limped an '82 Citation across country, from Cambridge, ID to Newport, RI, in 74 hours.
Now, that bizatch was a hooptie!

Wagon?

[gmhowell]

First choice would be another minivan. Barring that, you can go with any of a number of small station wagons. Lately, I've been looking at Subaru products. With them, you get AWD as well.

Calling Bethanie

[Ethelred Unraed]

Meanwhile, pragmatist that I am, I will go out on a limb and recommend a Hummer.

Cheers,

Ethelred

Re:Calling Bethanie

[gmhowell]

A Hummer is always a good thing.

Oh, wait, you were talking about some sort of SUV, right?

Read warning label before consumption

[Ethelred Unraed]

You mean, there's an SUV called a Hummer? You're shitting me.

WARNING: This post soluble only in an intermix of equal parts of sarcasm, irony, anti-GM rhetoric and self-deprecation. Use only as prescribed. If unsure, ask your proctologist for more information.

Cheers,

Ethelred

honestly

[open_minded_2002]

when our mini-van started to die like that the best policy is to replace it unless you feel like doing a lot of work to it, but since i know what it looks like you probably should just get a newer vechile.

Good Mileage

[SiliconJesus]

Get a Honda.

You lose the cargo space, but for the price of the Honda, you could keep the minivan for garbage runs.

My civic gets around 38 - 40 mpg. This has saved me aproximately 1500 gallons of gas this year, or roughly $3000, which is less than what I'm paying per for the car.

Some libertarian *you* are

[Ethelred Unraed]

I thought you powered your car with liquefied poor people (LPP)?

Cheers,

Ethelred

Re:Some libertarian *you* are

[FroMan]

So, assuming hippies are poor, would that make LPP an environmentally friendly fuel? Since it'd be green. ;-)

Re:Some libertarian *you* are

[Ethelred Unraed]

Soylent, you mean?

Cheers,

Ethelred

Re:Good Mileage

[Short Circuit]

I don't think the minivan's necessarily going to last the year. It's in that bad of shape. This week, I've been staying at a relative's house simply because I live 34 miles from work, and the last couple times I made the trip in that car I heard noises I didn't like.

I need to talk to the bank to see how much I can get on a pre-approved loan, then I'll know my budget.