SPARK or SONIC?

[milesvinson]

Thanks MetroMPG!

[milesvinson]

Also, any idea about ease of working on these cars? I've found the Aveo was fairly simple. Any idea about any of these new cars?

[Daox]

They're all pretty simple vehicles, I wouldn't imagine one would be much better than the other.

[Daox]

Daox,

What about stick shift?. We do not want an automatic. Here in the mountians the autos suck down the power on the hills (not the larger engines like V8s).

Plus I looked at the Mitsubishi already. They are 3 cylinder engines and the automatic is the "latest, greatest" CVT (not a very good track record for CVTs so far). The dealer only had Mitsubishis w/autos in stock and the stickers were around $18,500! I wish they would of had a manual shift to test out.


PS - we get additional GM retiree discount through my mother.

The manual numbers aren't quite as favorable to the Mirage. You'd spend $3120 in gas with the Spark vs $2897 with the Mirage. A savings of $223 per year. This is also assuming $3.60 per gallon of gas, and using the highway rating for each vehicle, and just the miles to work and back for her. Still, after 4 and a half years that is a thousand bucks saved... Chances are you probably use it for more than JUST traveling to work and back though, so the savings will be higher than that.

[milesvinson]

Thank you, Daox.

[serega12]

out of the choices given, I'd definitely go with a turbo sonic and get a catless DP, intake and a Trifecta tune via BNR (bad news racing). Would be one sweet little zappy chevy.

[MetroMPG]

Yeah, I'm wondering how this decision turned out.