Choosing A Smaller Car

Remember the days of giant sport utility vehicles such as the Ford Expedition and the Hummer

? Well, as of recently, you'd be hard pressed to see someone driving around in a Ford Expedition. And as for the Hummer, there was recently a decision to stop producing the Hummer vehicle due to problems within the auto industry and people tightening their pockets.

Smaller cars are definitely the way to go. If you have ever traveled abroad to a foreign country, particularly Europe; you probably noticed how much smaller the vehicles there were. In fact, whenever someone books any sort of travel plans for Europe in which renting a car is an option, the rental car agencies will actually put a size comparison on their vehicles to give you an idea of the difference in sizes so that you are aware of it before you pack your bags. This difference is sometimes important as it can mean the difference between bringing more or less luggage.

Are Americans greedy or selfish? Is this why we have such huge cars when compared to other countries? I don't think that this is true. However, there is no arguing with the fact that having a bigger car is certainly more comfortable whenever you are transporting other people or goods or if you are on a long road trip somewhere. I can still remember driving from New York to North Carolina in my tiny Nissan Altima as a college freshman. I made a mistake in the time that I left New York because I wound up sitting in over sixteen hours of bumper to bumper traffic pretty much the entire trip down. The trip was only supposed to take eight or nine hours, and when you are traveling in a tiny car with a lot of luggage in the middle of the summer, it is enough to drive you crazy. A few years later, when I got my Jeep, I was thankful to be in a bigger vehicle.

Having a bigger vehicle has its share of drawbacks though. For starters, it wasn't long before I realized that the bigger the vehicle, the more gasoline it is going to consume. With my little Altima, at the time, it only cost me around $13 to fill up my car, and that money would go a long way. However, just a few years later when I was driving my Jeep, the United States economy took a nosedive as it headed into a recession. Gas prices shot through the roof only a couple of weeks after I purchased my Jeep. The result? I was now paying somewhere around $70 each time to fill up my vehicle. The worse part of this was that because my Jeep had four-wheel drive and was a V-6, the gasoline didn't go far before I found myself at the gas station again. Couple this with poor traffic conditions, and I was quickly draining my bank account.

In the long run, I wound up getting rid of the Jeep in favor for a smaller, more practical vehicle. It's worth it in the long run!

by: David Williams 2

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