Hey Paul, We were on vacation and ended up renting a Nissan Rogue (small SUV). Now I want one. I didn't measure the back with the seats folded down for length--gee, I wasn't carrying a tape measure. But, it's very, very comfortable and you can get it with AWD, which would be nice for snow--oh wait, I guess you don't have to worry that. I've looked at the mpg--21 in town to 28 on the road. If you go look, measure the back and let me know... :-) Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois To: "Pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:33:16 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [pianotech] Vehicle Recommendations List:: The store where I work is offering to purchase a new vehicle for me to use, which will also be used to transport keyboards and perhaps some small uprights(?). One of the sales staff has a Prius, which appears to have enough room to carry an action, and they have used it to deliver digital pianos successfully. So that is one choice, though I doubt a small upright will fit. I'm also looking at some of the smaller SUV's like the Ford Escape, and some of the minivans, as well as the Chevy HHR (thanks, Wim!). I want to be sure I'm getting a reliable vehicle, so if you know what to avoid, or have had a bad experience, you could post it here. I'm a bit wary of the domestic brands because of reliability concerns, but I'm not opposed either. It will have to be a late model as the budget limit is around $15k, so a new vehicle is probably too much right now. It's going to be mostly freeway driving, s o it has to have enough power to get around. MPG's should be reasonable. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance. Paul McCloud, RPT San Diego PianoSD.com Service Technician pmc033 at earthlink.net EarthLink Revolves Around You. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100422/b4be25dd/attachment.htm>
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