Look at the Chevy Trax.

Thanks, I will. 👍🏼

Trax is known to have issues. Avoid.

I'm with you, no gadget basket for me with all kinds of stuff that costs like heck to fix, I'd go with push button radio too. Cars would be so much less expensive without nose wipers and other useless stuff.

It actually does have Bluetooth phone connection for hands-free calling!

I think it has 10 airbags.

@@NoWeyJose I'm quite sure it does, that's the only way they can sell them. The bottom line is, if it ever goes headlong into an F-250 or another immobile object, bad things will happen.. It's always been that way. Mass has a blunt trauma that airbags cannot overcome in some situations. I drive a 3500 Chevy, I'll pay the gas.

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Made in Japan! Good cars

Is yours a manual or an automatic?

@@dominiquedevereux7205 manual transmission, had to hunt for them but I keep the rpm down. Automatic revved motor more than I like especially in cold weather cold motor.

@@jeffw1246 I have the automatic. I've only had mine for about 10 days. It's used with 148,000 when I bought it, but 99% of those miles are highway 🛣 miles given it's only 6yrs old (a 2017 LS model). But even with that being the case, I'm 2 white squares above empty & I've only traveled 80 maybe a hundred miles at most and I just filled up Wed. & it's just Mon. of the following week and 90% of those miles are highway miles. I don't know if the previous owner ever had the transmission fluid changed/cleaned. Do you know if that can effect the mileage? Aside from changing the transmission fluid & regular oil 🛢 changes, is there anything else you suggest I do to upkeep a car 🚗 with that kind of mileage? Especially when I've got a tight budget & can't afford to do everything the owner's manual recommends?

@@dominiquedevereux7205 if it isn't burning oil and no obvious reason I'd check the gas tank itself, fuel line, gas filter. All the way to the motor. You might have a leak. I drove my inlaws wagon once going to a movie and started getting a strong smell of gas. They called a tow and picked us up. Good thing, rubber hose to carb sprung a leak over motor. Could have started a fire for a 50cent piece of rubber.

@@jeffw1246 I just went today to Strickland Brothers oil change drive through shop & techs there were really nice, took time to answer all my questions. My main purpose in going was 4 them to check my transmission fluid to tell me if it needed to be changed out. I just got my Spark 13 days ago; it's used and came with 148,000 miles. It's a 2017, so it's safe to assume 90% or more of those miles are highway 🛣 miles, which is better than city miles on terms of wear & tear. Plus the guy who owned it b4 me had it maintained like clockwork ⏰️ every 3 to 4 months with oil changes. The inside was dang near pristine & the outside was as well. Today was the 1st time I saw under the hood when the techs lifted it up to inspect it & there wasn't a spot of dust 🧹💨 anywhere 🤯!! The battery didn't have a pinch 🚫🤏🏾 of corrosion! I don't know if he just kept the battery clean or had a new 1 put in b4 he sold it, but it looked brand new!! Unfortunately, the techs couldn't find the dipstick to my transmission reservoir & were unable to check it. They said more than likely, I have a "closed" transmission system & that I'd have to take it to a real mechanic with more tools 🔧 at their disposal to check ✅️ the fluid. The main reason I want to check the transmission fluid so bad is cuz I read online that every 100,000 miles, the transmission system should be flushed & replaced with new transmission fluid. And this is my 1st car with a CVT transmission & I've heard many owners of vehicles with CVTs across many makes say they have issues with their CVT going bad at 100,000 if NOT earlier for many. The car only had 1 owner b4 me & as I said, he kept regular maintenance on it. BUT ☝🏾, aside from the oil changes, it doesn't specify what the other "maintenance" was & I don't know if that included having the transmission fluid changed. A employee at Auto Zone I spoke to a few days ago AND the manager at the oil 🛢 change place I took it to today told me that if the owner b4 me didn't change the transmission fluid around 80,000 to 100,000 miles already, then at this point it's best for me not to have anyone mess with it cuz it could cause more problems than it would help --- ESPECIALLY since I probably have a closed transmission system. He was trying to explain the logic to me saying that if there are small pieces of the transmission gears ⚙️ in the fluid, they're are somehow holding the transmission together & to flush them out would make it completely fall apart or something to that effect. IDK. It didn't really make sense to me cuz I'm like "If the fluid needs to be changed, how can it help to keep old, dirty fluid in the system 🤷🏾‍♂️?" It sounded like one of those issues where counter-logic is actually supposed to be the solution to the problem, but me not being mechanical minded @ ALL, it just wasn't sinking in for me. What are your thoughts??

I average about that in Pittsburgh. Lot of stop &go & hills

Exactly, the only real way to tell. There's no way most people are gonna drive that damn slow either.lol

Great news... thanks 👍

When gas goes to $4 a gallon! How long will the car last?

@@ratherbfishing455 At 4bucks a gallon, It's more of a question of how long the RV lasts and if he just gets a senior apartment (I hear some have pickleball courts) and tools around Texas in sparky

@@markbajek2541 Texas senior living is expensive! Not that many safe, cheap apartments. He will be able to afford a nice home with a housekeeper and a nurse as needed. My aunt and uncle lived in an affluent assisted living community and the staff stole money and items. No work ethics anymore. Most of the staff only spoke Spanish.

@@ratherbfishing455 I don't mean assisted living just a section 8 or senior market priced tower in Victoria near his sisters. I haven't looked but subsidized senior housing is generally under a grand a month for a studio type apartment in many states . where I'm at you can get a senior apartment for about 40 percent of your income. so assuming He's making under 24K with social security and investment income he'd come in under a grand. .

@@markbajek2541 He should have a better retirement being A CPA. I would not move to Victoria, but I haven't been there in about five years. I knew someone who was a DA there. I could not imagine anyone in Section 8 apartments. The Mexican rap music and kids and parents yelling would drive me insane. Maybe Rockport, but I could not afford to live there. Things have changed after the hurricane.

Wow. Got my 2020 for 14300. Bought a 2021 for 12900 for myself after giving other to GF. base models manual transmission

Yep...gas

I just drive slow

Manuals are definitely more efficient. Not as many power losses in the tranny. Usually about 10% better mpg.

not even broke in, go up a MPG maybe.

With his pee jug!

The warranty on the battery in a new Prius is 10 years and 150K miles. Not much to worry about, in the world's most reliable car. It takes an hour to replace the battey in a regular Prius. For instance, swapping a brand new Toyota battery into a 2004-2009 Prius costs $1600 for the battery (after shopping around, plus returning the old core) plus $200-$300ish labor if you go to a specialist rather than the dealer. Then you're good to go for typically at least another 8 years and 150-300K miles. Think of it as equivalent to swapping in a rebuilt transmission, just far easier. A Prius doesn't really have a transmission in the normal sense, just one set of fixed, bulletproof planetary gearing. It acts like a CVT by varying the speeds of the gas engine and electric motors relative to each other, but no gears are ever disengaged or changed.

no kidding...amazed me

They're two different animals, each with their place. Rusty was right to live in a Prius for its space, mpg, and superior HVAC and durability. He's also right to have the Spark as his toad, for its lightness to tow and its low cost. Though my Prius Prime weighs exactly 50% more, is 40 inches longer and 6 inches wider, it still gets 50% higher mpg than the Spark under most conditions, including the ones in this video. And about double the mpg in the city. The cost difference in fuel is pretty insignificant unless you look at the lifetime totals.