Since this is my first post, I wanted to give a brief history of Strawberry. Strawberry is the name my wife gave my little car after I got it home from Jacksonville. My 97 Ford Aspire was purchased in March of 2008, as gas prices were starting to go crazy, and I really felt I needed something that was going to save me some gas money in the long haul. Well, after doing some research, I discovered that Ford Aspires get some of the best gas mileage of almost any vehicle out there (36-42 mpg, manual transmission), and that’s even after 10+ years! I drove my pickup with trailer about an hour north to pickup the little car.
The car cost me $1500, the trailer rental was like $40, the tags and registration was about $110. Insurance with my current company is running about $380 every 6 months (though I will be changing that very shortly). So my initial investment into my little egg was around $2000. My wife saw it the next morning in the driveway and said it looked like a little strawberry (doesn’t help that it’s red), and that name has stuck since, despite my initial protest to the less than manly name (of course, it’s a mute point, it’s not exactly a manly car).
I really like the little car; I used to drive a pickup truck to work and back (80 miles / day round trip), and when gas was at $3.00, I was spending close to $15 / day just to go to and from work. With Strawberry, that dropped to about $7 / day, better than 50% cut.
More to come as I get time…
Steven
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