come on ...your reaching here... buy a motorcycle or give the truck to your wife like i did and save $600.00 a month on gas.... Most people who buy new Land Rovers, don't cry about gas prices.....

Buying a Land Rover is much like dating a model...It's going to cost you....

 

The min ply rating for a Disco is 6, lots of highway tires in that rating that will help MPG, realizing that not everyone takes their Disco offroad.
Removing the spare tire, jack, etc...in a 4500lb brick really wont make much of a difference.
Volt's catch fire after a severe crash, I like the idea of them, but just not practical for the price.
I have slowed down, I went from 65mph on the highway to 60mph, added 5min to my trip one way but netted me ~2mpg increase.
I have only gotten one weeks worth of MPG at that speed so far, but I went from 12.5mpg to 14.2mpg.
Windows rolled up, cruise set, tires at 40psi, a/c on if needed and a well tuned engine make all the difference.

As a side note, any one else laugh at the price of gas back in '06 that we were complaining about?
It's over $4/gal for premium here.

 

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As a side note, any one else laugh at the price of gas back in '06 that we were complaining about?
It's over $4/gal for premium here.[/QUOTE]

It's $4.18 IN MIAMI AND DIESEL IS $4.00... DIESEL HAVENT SEEN THAT IN A FEW YEARS...

 

And if you think about it that is a great idea.
You currently own/lease a gas guzzling SUV and are in the market for a new car.
Gas is expensive, why not buy something that gets better MPG and hopefully is made in the USA to support US jobs and reduce our supposed dependency on foreign oil?
And just so we are all on the same page, we import about half of what we use, we make the other half ourselves.
And most of our imported oil is from this side of the globe.

EIA's Energy in Brief: How dependent are we on foreign oil?

 

$4.53 for premium here in San Diego. Glad I lifted it and went bigger tires recently. Lol I think I can fabricate a flat panel to stick straight up like a wall on the front to assist me in totally crushing my MPG.

I have a metro I drive daily 75 miles 6 days a week for the abuse at 44mpg so the rover sits and waits to go play.
Savi gs with ru ning around d to work and errands at work is almost $600 a month Geo cost me $1700 and is mint low miles and getting wrapped for my shop. So total write off on top of it.

Figure it'll take me 3 months in gas savings to pay for it and the rest is savings....

 

I've been thinking about a old Corrola for $500, but I dont drive enough to make it work.
I only drive maybe 200 miles a week, so it would take me forever to recoup the cost of my commuter car.

 

You said it..but i wound not care about $4.53 a gallon if i had killer surf......

 

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Not done by me:

Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.

For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles
before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.
Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the
battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh
battery is approximately 270 miles. It will take you 4 1/2 hours to
drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and
you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your
average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.

According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of
electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.
The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I
looked up what I pay for electricity.

I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16
per kwh.

16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.

$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the
Volt using the battery.

Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine only that
gets 32 mpg.

$3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile.
$3.75 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.12 per mile.

The gasoline powered car cost about $15,000 while the Volt costs
$46,000.

So Obama wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car that costs more that
7 times as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.

REALLY? I say "drill here - drill now". This is nuts, but people have bought them.

 

I also look at this and see where it takes energy to create the new low mileage vehicles and then compare to my used Rover I bought I think I am being better for the enviroment than if I would have bought a new car. Plus I own mine and so the costs to replace it with even a newer vehicle with better MPG could take 3-4 years to break even. And most of all, I enjoy driving the Rover mroe than any of those tiny tin cans so the cost really does not matter anymore.