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- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13It's called having fun. You guys ever heard of it?
He does make a point though. You say you laugh at people filling up their SUV's...maybe they don't care? - looksliketrent, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I can get 100 miles to the hamburger on my bicycle.
- maseone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7RULE ONE TO GETTING DUGG:
No php on the linked to page. Especially php that is accessing the DB!!!!!!!
doh!
=)
cool site btw
m1 - scottatmu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Argh ... sometimes I can't type right. The 2006 Maserati is $3678.09/year, not $700/year, for the yearly fuel costs.
- aeiou, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6only 57 diggs and its already down....
- fantastcandy10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3that's ridiculous. I might get a mile per chicken sandwich if I'm lucky. I also consume lots of bottled water, too. Bottles are convienient and always around a college campus in the texas summer.
- nicklinus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5anyone have a mirrior?
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This was very accurate for me (the mpg at least). The cost depends on how much you use your car - they assume 15k miles, which may be close for most people (it is for me).
- TDot1980, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5My Maserati does 185
I lost my license now I don't drive... - tlogank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is now what their frontpage says...funny stuff:
"We apologize for the downtime we've had over the past couple of hours. We found that MPGBuddy.com made the frontpage of DIGG.com and was driving a lot of traffic to our site in a short period of time during the same time we were upgrading our MySQL database. All should be up and running properly now. We didn't even realize our site got submitted to DIGG.com, so please don't forget about us during this period. We will be up to full force ASAP." - sl4x0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i know i'm asking to get buried, but god, domestic V6 versions of muscle and ponycars are for women.
- WindexDJD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ugh, the gas milage in my 1990 Jeep Cherokee is dismal (4.0 I6). I'd be suprised if I got 15 mpg out of it, but being a highschool stundent working a crappy job I can't really afford to buy a newer more fuel efficent car. I pay alot at the pump, but the plus side is that I don't actually have to drive that much (school, work, around town) so I guess it all depends on how you use your car.
- sl4x0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4you call fun an approriate excuse for ridiculously unnecessary oil consumption? have you not opened a god damned newspaper in the past half decade?
it's one thing to buy an 8 cylinder truck with decent torque to haul around your stupid toys, another to pack up your 15mpg SUV (that will never leave asphalt) with a few bags of groceries and your obnoxious spoiled brat children for the sake of conspicuous goddamned consumption. - zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I also keep a spreadsheet of what my 2004 Civic LX uses and so far I get about 30mpg and have spent $344.23. I bought it way back when gas was still about $1.80/gal and I wanted to help save on fuel expenses. I'm pretty glad I planned it now now that its up to $2.99/gal in my area. Here is a pic of the spreadsheet I kept... the Total: amount is wrong because I lost about a year's worth of receipts so its missing a big gap of entries.
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/3179/gasdt0.jpg - wet_napkin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If we want to talk bad gas mileage, lets talk my truck. I own a 1984 Chevy Pickup with a 5.0 V8. 7mpg City, 10 Highway. I would LOVE to get a better car/truck/motorcycle whatever, but I can't afford it. I drive 9 miles to school and back each day, and my city has little public transportation. So, for all of you rich snobby jerkasses out there, take a minute to take that wad of cash out of your ass and realise that, although some people would love to have a more fuel efficent car, its just not gonna happen.
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5It's dead, Jim... dugg already... bummer I would have loved to compare my 4-cyl Toyota Celica with some of those gas guzzlers I see on our roads on a daily basis. I see the same guys filling up those monsters at the gas station - they do not look happy - I however am :-)
Anyway, that's how I see it - it's 2006 and gas is about $3.50/gallon here in California - people are still buying those huge cars, I don't think they'll ever learn. Americans are idiots when it comes to energy consumption - it's part of the culture I guess... - oldcyborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nailed my eldorado costs pretty close!!
I will pay to keep my car. some things are sacrosanc to me....
Cyborg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I still chuckle a bit when i see commercials for huge suv's. This year and last has been a definite wakeup call to most people but I'll admit there's still millions of idiots out there driving their guzzlers. I've noticed in rich areas, they don't seem to give a *****.
Cars I've owned:
95 Toyota Corolla - Just sold this recently. Great gas mileage, not much room for storage, a bit uncomfy.
96 BMW 740iL - Was fun while it lasted but is just too big, sucks gas, and keeps your wallet empty. Thank god it was sold before all the gas prices started moving up. I don't even think I got 15mpg in it.
97 Mercury Sable LS Wagon - Good compromise with a V6, I get decent mileage (20-25mpg) now just not as good as the corolla. However, I have room for storage, leather seats, and a sunroof. Got it for a great price ($900 woot!). The only thing that would make this car better is if it were lighter. Why doesn't anyone make a superlight wagon this size? Would be a great utility/commuter car - drilldown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2My car is extremely accurately reflected by this website.
DUGG. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I've got nothing against having fun but the people who are apathetic towards our dependency on fossil fuels (a major player in the middle east conflicts/wars) are complete idiots and deserved to be called out. Digg it down if you want, the apathetic people are the reason automobile manufacturers aren't doing anything innovative with alternative fuel cars.
A great way to screw over our kids and their kids and their kids... *rolleyes* - likwidtek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2poor broken site. was dugg to death.
- flypcide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yep, this site was spot on with the mpg of my car too...great resource for when I buy a new car next year.
- lucifuge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't seem too accurate to me. Said my 97 F150 4x4 uses the same amount of gas as my wife's nearly thousand pound lighter, missing 2 cyllinders, more aerodynamic Explorer. The truck gets about 16 MPG, where the Explorer gets low 20s........so I don't see how the site can possibly be accurate.
- drilldown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Whaddaya call 15 men on a truck nowadays...
Fuel efficient!
:-) - FknGoAway, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9I just picked up a GMC Denali XL yesterday after ordering it almost 3 months ago. Some people do have a use for a big car, we have toys that need it, boat, jet skis, snowmobiles, and a quad or two. A little tiny 4cyl car just does not cut it if you need to tow anything. Gas prices have no meaning, I don't care and have to laugh when people complain about a few bucks at the pumps. Stay home or get a bicycle, a little exercise will do some people good. So those thinking that people driving big cars care, most don't.
- LVsFINEST, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe Europe should pull a distgusting move like the U.S.: Go to War with a oil rich country. That'll drive down your prices.
- terrya64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This takes the average of 15000 miles per year, but I only average 5-7000 mpy. So my suv has the same annual cost as a VW Golf :)
- Rymep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Apparently my Impreza gets 22mpg...I haven't gotten lower than 28mpg so far. And I put 91 or 93 in it.
Close, but no cigar. - kidtriton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Isn't this site the same data from http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm ? I've been using that site for years.
- 47f0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heh, it has about the right mileage for my '84 Benz 300D, but can't figure the cost cause it claims to have no idea what kind of fuel (diesel, of course) yet gets the mileage right - and the engine wrong. It's a straight 5-cyl - not a V-5...
Sigh - guess I'll have to put another 300,000 miles on it to figure out how much it's costing me. - Funny2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I track my real-world gas mileage on http://www.gasaroo.com
- iluvhatemail, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1there's no way, i got a '99 V6 and only drive to work and back. Still takes $50/wk, $2400/yr. the mpg is more in the low 20's regardless what Pontiac says.
- Funny2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, I tried using that government site to track my stuff for a while. Gave me a headache. :-) I found gasaroo.com to be much easier to enter my data and visually represent my stuff over time.
- tmspecial, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The site is right on: 18 mpg city/26 mpg highway for my Ford Taurus station wagon. That means, my next car will be a foreign fuel-efficient one and NOT a US gas-guzzler! $2,178 is a lot, but still NOT enough. I hope gas hits $5 soon so people (including myself) have an incentive to get rid off their inefficient cars and SUVs.
- javiel, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1For some reason it won't work because your going to need to be redirected to the car of your choice. Which means a new page will need to be loaded which is not cached. Let me know if I'm wrong guys.
- javiel, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1looks like a good site. I got in about 20% loaded and stopped because the digg effect. I cant wait till the digg effect gradually wears off. BTW i have a civic 06 , it supposedly gets 30-40 mpg, but I'm guesses more like 25-35. Cars manufacturers test the MPG under perfect conditions (No wind drag, constant speed, no A/C etc.)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, trucks are not that fun to have. You don't get to go offroading except on the weekends if you're lucky, and then you have to pay the premium in gas all week, plus the gas for the offroading itself. Boating is even worse. And who wants to just sit in a vehicle all day? Anything really daring or risky has the potential to cost you thousands. Tubing is boring as hell, and wakeboarding is fun, but then you have to buy an even more expensive and specialized boat when you can skateboard for free at the government built skate park...and in winter, you can buy a season pass for snowboarding and it is still way cheaper then you would have paid for gas for the entire year to wakeboard, plus the boat expense. Its not about how much money you put into something, its about how much fun you can get out of what you have.
- Zer0Fade, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1$2543 a year for my G35, damn gas prices.
- WindexDJD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Same here. My cherokee has a 4.0L engine. It is only showing up with the 2.8L version. There are cars that are the same, but have different engines. I wonder why this was not taken into consideration.
- Hardcase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ditto. My VW Beetle matches the engine, but it doesn't account for the turbo or diesel options. And for some reason it thinks that I should be using premium fuel. Besides that, the prices for fuel are out of whack, at least for my area of the country - we're paying $2.84 for regular, so, at least in my case, it's off by $0.15 a gallon. But, hey, you can't have everything, right?
- Redcooper02, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Argh... no entry for a Mini Cooper S. I'll Digg though :P
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I can't imagine living in the People's Republic of California and owning one of those trucks. I think trucks are fine, they have their purpose, but I just smile when I think of how the stupid soccer moms and people with the McMansions that think it's cute to drive a vehicle that is far too large for them. When gas goes to $5 a gallon, I won't really care (personally, for commuting reasons anyway - I am obviously ignorning the macroeconomic effects) and they will be a bit more humbled. They will probably even complain, and we won't listen.
- timacx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't like it. How can it be accurate without allowing you to choose engine type.I have a 2002 Sentra SE-R, which is nothing at all like other Sentras. The Sentra Spec-V and the GEs have nothing in common aside from the moniker. Same goes with almost every other vehicle out there.
- praseodym, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2$750 (and even $3500) are actually normal expenses on fuel here in the Netherlands. It costs about 75 euros a week for a small commuter (25 km per day), which makes nearly $4000 of fuel expenditure per year.
Fuel is just a lot more expensive in Europe. - HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I only use $25 a week ::shrugs::
I figure up my own gas mileage also, those aren't Pontiac's numbers. - scatman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why digg me down *****?
- sentai, on 09/08/2008, -0/+0http://www.je8.info nice work man
- scatman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I get 55 MPG on my daily commute in my 1 litre petrol. Granted there's not much power, but it gets there in the end.
- harley999, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You surely dont commute if your only paying $1000 a year in a firebird.
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