{"id":6778,"date":"2014-08-11T09:48:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2014-08-11T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:48:52","slug":"what-car-should-i-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/what-car-should-i-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Car Should I Buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am starting school in 2 weeks. I need a car for the commute. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m looking for<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low cost of ownership over the next 3 years while I&#8217;m in school. Maybe $13k used<\/li>\n<li>good MPG (100 mile round trip commute)<\/li>\n<li>comfortable for passengers to study in<\/li>\n<li>ok for an infant in the back<\/li>\n<li>probably a hatchback for hauling stuff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top contenders right now are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honda Fit. I sat in a 2015 and the back seat didn&#8217;t have enough clearance for me. I think the older models are ok but have to check<\/li>\n<li>Mazda 3<\/li>\n<li>Honda Civic<\/li>\n<li>Nissan Versa<\/li>\n<li>Ford Fiesta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do YOU recommend I test drive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some cars I knocked off the list<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toyota Prius. The A-pillar makes a terrible blind spot for me. I keep nearly hitting pedestrians in Megan&#8217;s Prius. :-(<\/li>\n<li>Honda Insight. I&#8217;m way too tall to sit in the back seat :-(<\/li>\n<li>Toyota Matrix. Terrible visibility in the front<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It seems a lot of  \u00a0newer cars get better MPG&#8230; a 2008 Mazda 3 or Fit gets 33MPG, the same cars in 2015 get 40, saving about $400\/year in gas!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am starting school in 2 weeks. I need a car for the commute. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m looking for Low cost of ownership over the next 3 years while I&#8217;m in school. Maybe $13k used good MPG (100 mile round trip commute) comfortable for passengers to study in ok for an infant in the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}