A good friend of mine just made the same call on the Subaru. He was a Volvo 240 guy and bought two new in 1990. Just now moved on to a legacy. Like you he dug the creature comforts but loved the ride of the old 240. He gave me a wagon with almost 500k and gave my brother a sedan with near 600k.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 28, 2016, at 8:20 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > We're nearing the end of the VW Diesel-gate buy back process, and now have > the Subaru Legacy that's replacing it, so I thought it was time to add up a > few numbers. > > We drove the Passat 34115 miles in 54 months and burned 826.4 gallons of > Diesel fuel. That's an average of 41.3 MPG. There are only two cross > country trips in that, and a couple of shorter trips (Tulsa and mid > Arkansas), so most of the miles are 25 mile round trips into town for > groceries, etc. > > The Legacy cost us $3,000 after the VW buy back (yes, I'm counting chickens > before they hatch). We're trading Diesel goodness for all wheel drive and > electronic gismo's out the a$$. SWMBO really likes the back-up camera, > blind spot detection and rear cross traffic alert features. I must admit > that they did help a lot when leaving a crowded parking lot this afternoon > - telling me traffic was coming from both sides as I was trying to back out > of a parking space before I saw them. So far, the Subaru is a bit more > comfortable than the VW was, but neither holds a candle to an old MB. > > The newer MB's are still just too expensive for someone who wants to spend > his $'s on airplanes :-), hence the Subaru. Time will tell whether it was a > good decision. > > -- > OK Don > > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2017 Subaru Legacy, ? mpg > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 41.3 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
