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...Chevy Metro!
Well, not brand new, exactly, since they quit building them, oh, say in 2000 or so. But new to us, and with only a little rust. A 1999 Model Year Metro, this baby's got to be one the last ones they made.
Never thought I'd see the day this lifelong car nut was THIS happy about closing the deal on a 9-year-old Metro!
Welp, that's $4-a-gallon gas for ya.
He figures he can save about 3 grand a year in gas costs by commuting in the Metro instead of his compact pick-up. Because it's small(-ish), his pick-up gets decent gas mileage, but the Metro will double it. So, assuming it keeps running and gas prices stay at this level or higher, the thing will pay for itself in about a year.
He's going to keep the pick-up, for pick-up-ish activities (Home Depot, anyone? That pick-up drove my redbud tree home a year ago...), and he plans to drive it on snowy days in winter, when it will be comforting to have 4-wheel-drive. But even in winter we get plenty of days when the roads are clear and dry, and the Metro will do fine.
He found this car on Craigslist a week ago, and rented a U-Haul trailer and drove up to Traverse City yesterday after work in order to pick it up. But it was by far the newest Metro he could find in the entire state, with the least rust and miles on it, and he was able to stay with my parents overnight, so it was worth the trip to him.
(Gee, I sure wish GM would dust off the plans on this baby! In the current climate, they'd do well to shut down some FS SUV plants and start cranking out these "cute widdoe cars" (as Littlest Brother describes it) instead... If Dear Husband was willing to jump through all these hoops just to buy one used, he's probably not the only one; and if he could have just meandered down to his local dealership and bought one new, it would have been a lot more convenient...)
