So we have had the car for... 10 days. The wife is taking it to work this week since she commutes and I am at home with the kids.
A total of 466 miles, in part due to family graduations, swim meets, that sort of thing. We are using the car as a family vehicle to save gas and hopefully recoup costs that much quicker.
It used 18.9 gallons of gas. Which represent one complete fill-up and another 80% fill up.
My truck would have used 33.3 gallons to travel the same distance instead of 18.9.
That is a "savings" of 14.4 gallons at an average of around $4.55 for a total of $65.52 in gas savings for ten days.
I multiply that by three and I am at $196.56 which is close to what I am hoping for in terms of savings.
The Ford so far is averaging a bit under 25 mpg which is less than the new "conservative" fueleconomy.gov claims. I'm going to see if I can work on improving my lead foot a bit to help that.