Hi Paul, I was recently looking for a vehicle for my business, and the one that I liked as being cost effective, fuel efficient, and roomy is the newest Honda Fit. The seats fold in all sorts of ways, the lip of the back end is very low so you don't have to strain to lift things into the car. The opening in the back seemed to me to be quite a bit taller than the Prius to me, and the cost for the base model, brand new, was only about $15,700. I'm sure they'd cut a deal with the economy these days. Plus the car gets around 28 in the city and 35 on the highway. As for reliability, I've had nothing but Hondas for the last 25 years. Never had anything more than routine maintenance to accomplish. I find them to be very reliable vehicles. Looks small on the outside, but it's quite large on the inside with all the possible configurations. Check out the specs here... http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/ Here's a photo of the back side... Regards, Rob McCall McCall Piano Service, LLC www.mccallpiano.com Murrieta, CA 951-698-1875 On Apr 22, 2010, at 07:33 , pmc033 at earthlink.net wrote: > > 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/a84df0cf/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Fit back end.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 83407 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100422/a84df0cf/attachment-0001.jpg>
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