Beninbeta
Well-known member
I think what I don't see with mileage is what you got over the course of that week and what the overall MPGs are from those that drove the vehicle before you. I know a lot of vehicles will give you the cumulative MPGs. I think you should do a long hwy stretch and you may as well also talk about feature of the vehicle, ride quality, 5 things you like and 5 you don't or whatever works for you during that drive. Then give the MPG for your week with the vehicle and cumulative if it's available. Sure those get driven harder and probably sit while on too, but it's real world driver review mileage that you could track somewhere. Then at the end of the year you could do a year in review of what you drove and how they performed or something?I'm out of press loans at the moment. When I get another one, I'll do one and we can see how it goes. Thanks for the idea! Now I just have to remember... LOL
Knowing how easy it would be to maintain and maybe sharing the estimated 3-5 year cost of ownership might be interesting if that were possible too. Like based on the I80-100 loop driving 15000 miles per year, x $ per gallon/charge, performing scheduled maintenance would be about x at a dealership, y on your own. I think another thing to include is how long and if possible how good any manufacturer included maintenance is. Especially on your long termers.
You'll figure it out.