One person per car, alone.

Nathan said:
9 of 10 vehicles here in this rural town are trucks, but my god<!> some of these Ford-Dodge-Chevy trucks are e-n-o-r-m-o-u-s. Granted, some are towing horse trailers or large dump trailers for fire wood, but most are purely for ego-self-gratification.
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IMHO, RAM trucks are the worst!
 
Can you imagine a car dealership that will lower the price on your wanted SUV if you, at one fourth price, also purchase a minny 2-seater vehicle allowed only to be driven on bicycle paths? šŸ˜†
 
CallMeKate said:
Nope, we sure don't, @chic . We never know someone's real story or what's going on while standing on the sidelines looking in.
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Once when I was driving my grandmother someplace I became annoyed at another driver and said "I don't know what the hell that guys problem is". Granny just looked at me and said "no, you don't".

I've always remembered that little lesson.
 
Elsie said:
Can you imagine a car dealership that will lower the price on your wanted SUV if you, at one fourth price, also purchase a minny 2-seater vehicle allowed only to be driven on bicycle paths? šŸ˜†
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I can imagine dealerships that will construct virtually any kind of deal that'll result in an extra nickel in their pocket.
The nature of the beast.
 
If everybody would switch to little cars I'd be perfectly content with one, but I don't want to be the tiniest vehicle on the road.

Lately I used the buses and trains so much that when I took my car in for an oil change I'd only put 3000 miles on the car after more than a year.

I feel a little guilty tying up a whole car just for the few places I go, but it is nice to have the flexibility.

For most people I'd think a truck would be a poor use of money, when we had a little pick-up truck it was clearly more expensive than just paying the feed store to deliver. Tho the truck bed did come in handy for bringing kiddie pools home from Walmart for the ducks and geese to play in.

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Yep, itā€™s dumb. Moving one person in a 2-ton box is wasteful. Tiny one- or two-seaters make way more sense, but people buy for image and ā€œjust in caseā€ seats they never use. Itā€™s ego over logic.
 
Disgustedman said:
Those are fine those little cars, but they are basically death traps on a highway. I would say they're good if restricted to regular surface streets.

There's also a consideration if you looked at Europe and compared to the USA you would find that public transport is heavily used mainly because the cost of owning a car is so costly in some of those countries.

Plus don't forget that, we are in a country where you could drive for 5-8 hours and still stay in a state whereas you could pass through five different countries in a day over in Europe.
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I agree. Buses are good. I haven't had a car since 2007 and didn't even want that one. Minibuses would be useful in this town as well.
 
So our ram truck has 218000 miles on it. It gets 18 mpg consistently. Itā€™s next trip north to the other house it will carry two 48X48 windows. They do not fit it my ford escape suvā€¦. Believe me I tried. The escape has 158000 miles on it. Itā€™s back folds completely flat. I canā€¦and haveā€¦slept in it.
 
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