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Would you buy a commuter car?
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The other day, I came across a video for the Vandenbrink Carver (now called the VentureOne) which looked absolutely awesome -- and would make a great commuter car. This weekend, I was at the Vintage Computer Festival, held at the Computer History Museum, which had a display of Smart cars, another great choice for a commuter car.I have considered getting a small, efficient car to use to get to work and back. I've seen a Honda Insight (a little two-seater hybrid) with the license plate "73 MPG", and have been very tempted to look for one of those. In discussing it with Rachel, however, she flat out nixed the idea. She said that there's no way we will buy any car that can't carry the kids.
Her thinking was that I might be at work and need to pick up one of the kids at school if they get sick or something. That's a fair argument, although if such a vehicle were an addition rather than a replacement, I could always swing by the house first and swap cars, but that would mean a delay in getting to the kids.
So for now, I drive her car which gets reasonable gas mileage, but not great, and it's certainly not as cool as the Carver. But does she have a valid argument? Would you buy a car just for commuting or would you only look at vehicles that could carry your kids as well?
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11-06-2007 @ 12:27PM
S. Kelly said...I don't know much about the Carver, but being a faculty/physician for a large medical school, my husband has to travel around the state, frequently. In one week, he can put over 550 miles on his car -- sometimes more.
A year and a half ago, we looked at our gasoline bill and made a huge decision.
We bought a Toyota Prius (hybrid).
It's quite possibly the best car-buying decision we have ever made. Not only has it saved us close to $250 on gasoline each month (he averages between 45-50 mpg), but it's fun to drive. And get this: we have 3 children (14, 10, and 3) and we can ALL fit comfortably in this car (though we usually take the van)!
Doing something good for the environment is just icing on the cake.
I still drive my Honda Odyssey, but it is the 2005 model which came with this cool thing that shuts off unneeded cylinders when maintaining a constant speed so I get pretty decent gas mileage for a mini-van (19-21 city & 27-29 hwy). Still, I have been so impressed with my husband's hybrid that I am seriously looking into a hybrid of my own for my next car.
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11-06-2007 @ 1:40PM
Heather said...I used to agree with your wife. When our first was still in his infant car seat I told my husband he needed to get rid of his 2 door car. It was just too difficult to work the carseat in the back the very few times I needed to. Now that we have 2 in carseats we never drive my husbands car as a family. The carseats are already in my car because I'm the one usually driving the boys. When my husband needs to take them somewhere he uses my car. We're looking at getting a tiny hybrid for his next car.
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11-07-2007 @ 10:13AM
M4Mommy said...We are lucky that my husbands job is right out of the commuter rail station. So he takes that to work daily. We have one car. A Santa Fe. It is the right size for our family of three. Although in another year or two it might not be big enough. We have horses. Might need a horse trailer.. which equals a 8cyl truck.
If we were to move where there isnt a train system or public transportation that would work for us, then we would get s smaller car. Probably a Accent or such. For commuting. But we would still need a bigger vehicle for the horse stuff.
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