We now have two Honda Elements in our garage. Some neighbors a couple of houses down have two xBs and another neighbor has two BMW 7 series. I guess we're trying to out weird our weird neighbors, especially the guy and gal with the xBs. By buying the Elements we've improved our gas mileage by 22 miles per gallon (we increased by 8 and 14 miles per gallon over our two previous vehicles). We'll use 691 less gallons of gas this year which will save us about $1800-2500 depending on the price of gas. Our monthly outlay for autos remains the same and our insurance went up by $4.00 per year. When you count in the Hondas slower depreciation over the Jeep and the Dodge, we should come out better over time. A cool website that will help you find low cost gasoline and has a side by side fuel savings calculator is here: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/.
