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The wife's boss is selling us a 1993 Mercury Tracer wagon. 1.9L automatic, PS, PB, air, dead stereo, interior lights blowing the fuse, but it should get much better mileage for us, and it doesn't look bad at all. Engine is damn clean. I just had a synthetic oil change done this morning, and gave it good once over. Brakes were just redone before we bought it, and it looks to have been maintained very well.
Stats on our vehicles for gas mileage, according to the US Government:
1991 Ford Taurus - 23 mpg avg user combined city/hwy mpg
1999 Ford Explorer - 16.5 avg user combined city/hwy mpg (mine is actually getting about 15mpg in the real world)
1993 Mercury Tracer - 28 avg user combine city/hwy mpg
Pretty good step up, all in all. We've been pretty lucky in the past year, having gotten a free Taurus with only 35k on it, and now the Tracer with only 70k.
Gotta find two stereos, now, because the one from the Taurus was stolen, and the one in the Tracer is dead.
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