airgate

For those who don't know, I bought a 2010 Honda Insight EX with Nav in May and used it as my daily driver. In 6 months, I put over 17k miles on it. On Thursday night, I had an unfortunate accident and landed that Insight in a river. I was very lucky.

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So...I'm looking at a new car and came across a 2010 Toyota Camry SE with 2,300 miles. An 80 year old man bought it, didn't like it and traded it for a 2010 Honda Accord EX. At any rate, I did some mileage/fuel comparisons and came up with the following:

Insight $21,000
17,000 miles / 43mpg = 395 gallons X $2.75 (ppg) = $1,086 in fuel costs

Camry $20,000
17,000 miles / 30mpg = 567 gallons X $.275 (ppg) = $1,559 in fuel costs

If I drove 17k miles in 6 months, one could imagine I'll likely drive 34k miles a year and so the fuel costs on the Insight could save me a little more than a grand a year.

Do you think I should go with another Insight or go with the Camry?

Thanks in advance for your time.

QUIKAG

If you're going to wreck another car within a year, get the Camry. An extra $500 in gas, but $1k cheaper. Not to mention, you're driving a real car and not a Cracker Jacks box.

airgate

Where's that "Ban for Life" button...

Love 'ya QUIKAG...'ya GM lovin' Sun ya biatch.

QUIKAG

Read the thread. Glad you are okay!

clawhammer

Get a Fit

JonBoy

I like the solidity of the Camry and it'd be worth it to me to get that size of car over the Insight. It's also a better highway car, which is where I'm assuming you drive a lot to put that many miles on in 6 months.

Camry all the way.

hondaBeater

If those were my two choices I will take the camry with the TRD package and a 6 speed mt.

corey415

If you drive that many miles a year I would not choose the Insight.

sam_spider

Get another Insight, you know you want to.

nearwater4me

I'd go with the Camry as well.
My GF has an 08 Camry and it's pretty solid.
There aren't much stuff to break down in the first place, I guess.

Dan