Defiantly food for thought. Sad but true.

I average 15 mpg doing mostly highway miles. Currently I am spending $80 a week on gas. Hopefully the new addition to my driveway will pay for itself. I purchased a used Mazda Protege. Reports I can find suggest 31 mpg highway. Double the mileage equals half the fuel cost or a budget of $160 a month. The car will cost me $105 for a monthly payment and an additional $40 for insurance. Other incidental expenses such as registration and inspection are low enough I am not even going to work them in to the equation. The only gamble here is that maintenance costs will be low. The Protege has a good track record in that area. I do not expect this, as a second car, to make me money but I feel better about spending it this way. The hidden savings will be the reduced miles I put on my Titan. This should help to preserve some of it's ever shrinking resale value and prolonging it's service life. The Titan will become more of a recreational vehicle for me. A reward on the weekends for a long hard week of commuting to work in a small car.

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2007 Titan KC SE 4x4 w/popular package, capt. chairs, and utility bed option. Westing grill/brush guard, Westin nerf bars, KC lights, Lund sunvior 2 w/light kit, BFG AT KO's on AR fuel 8 rims, Extang soft tonneau, Astro long range remote start, PRG leveling kit, Stillen SS dual rear exit cat back. Scottsbro23 custom engine cover

of all the stories you hear about people trading in the titan for a smaller car or simply buying a smaller car to fill up with less, that one ^^ might be one of the better ones, you're not throwing money away like a majority of other panicked titan drivers do when switching to smaller cars

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"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." --George W. Bush, Feb. 28, 2008

The right approach. The monthly payment for car and insurance are pretty fixed. The price of a gallon of gas is not. As it rises, your savings in gas costs will also imcrease.

You might talk with your insurance company. When you remove your truck as a daily driver to work, your rates usually come down as your risk for an accident is also decreased.

Red

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2005 Titan KC SE, Helwig, True-Track, ARE MX Canopy

I wish I had found that to be the case. I listed the Protege as my primary vehicle with the Titan relegated to a "pleasure" role. I didn't see much of a drop in the rates for the Titan. I went to a couple other sites as well as a local agent to get some quotes. They all were in line with what I am paying now so I am probably not getting ripped off. I just hoped for better.

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2007 Titan KC SE 4x4 w/popular package, capt. chairs, and utility bed option. Westing grill/brush guard, Westin nerf bars, KC lights, Lund sunvior 2 w/light kit, BFG AT KO's on AR fuel 8 rims, Extang soft tonneau, Astro long range remote start, PRG leveling kit, Stillen SS dual rear exit cat back. Scottsbro23 custom engine cover

Sorry to hear that. My personal experience has been that miles driven daily affected the cost of insurance. Perhaps, if I were to go with another company I'd see different results.

Red

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2005 Titan KC SE, Helwig, True-Track, ARE MX Canopy