Least Expensive Car To Drive

Toyota Prius is the least expensive car to drive. This was the conclusion of a AAA study. “The sticker price is truly the tip of the iceberg,” said a AAA spokeswoman. You have to consider repairs, insurance, gas and total fuel efficiency and a whole list of other factors.

The Toyota Prius has a low 17.9% of the five-year costs going to fuel. That means less the 20% of the cost of maintaining and keeping this car on the road is fuel costs. That is truly amazing.  The only downside is the Toyota Prius depreciates faster than average, if you consider resale-book value.  I am not sure why this is.  But if you drive it to the end of its life, I do not see why this should be a factor and perhaps this noted faster depreciation is an aberration.

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In your car driving a lot? Learn a language

If you are a commuter why not learn a language? I use to drive maybe 2.5 hours a day on my way to work and back, not including time going to the gym or other places. If I had spend that time listening to language CDs I would have been much better off today. Years latter after I gave up commuting for a tele commute I wrote an mp3 language learning program. Its the best way to optimizes your time while in a car and make the commute less stressful.

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Autos cause pollution

I live in Krakow, Its in a valley so there is some moderate pollution. Many people say its from factories or other sources, however, on the days autos are in Krakow the air is polluted on the days they are not the air is clear. You can see this in any major city that Autos cause pollution. So when gas prices go up it is not always a bad thing. People will drive less and the air will be cleaner. This is a fact. Autos cause pollution.

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You will not drive much in the future

The world is running out of oil and as a result you will not drive as much in the future. I am an American that lives in Poland and I have not had a car in 10 years, well I had a car in Poland for a few weeks but it cost too much. Gas prices are out of control. In Poland more than the USA, but in the USA it will be 15 dollars a gallon. And at 15 dollars a gallon, remember you read it hear, you will not drive. It is supply and demand. The demand is so high supply production can not keep up. Further the total supply is running low. We will not run out of oil in 10 years, but the law of supply and demand will push prices up to where they should 15 dollars a gallon. In Poland prices of gas are about 10 dollars a gallon. And I do not drive. I take a train or walk. With trains everywhere in Poland why would I need to drive. This will be the future of the USA. We fought two wars in Iraq to get oil and it make no difference. American will have to drive less.

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New Auto technology

There are two new technologies out that can improve driving safety, they are lane departure alerts and collision warning systems. The first technology warns drivers when they are leaving a lane with vibration or visual or audio cues. This lane departure auto technology seems simple but if you consider how many accidents are caused by lane departures it is estimated that it could save, lives. About 1/2 million US accidents are caused by lane departures and 10 thousand lives are lost each year. The collision warning system is just what it sounds like, alerts drivers when it perceives a potential frontal crash. Frontal crashes account for about 40 percent of the auto accidents. For me personally car safety is a major factor in car purchases and any technology that can reduce the risk of accident is well worth its weight in gold. I am curious is auto insurance companies will give discounts for such technonolgies if they prove effective in the long run.

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