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[Skierchickie]

I've got a 2005 VW Jetta Wagon that I love. With the back seat down, I can fit one of my bikes (50cm, so not a big one) in with the front wheel on, with the handlebars turned a bit. If I need to fit 3 people and 3 bikes, I can fold down 1/2 of the back seat, pop off the front wheel, and still fit it in (carefully, so I don't get grease all over the side of the seat). And put two more on the roof rack. I think I could squeeze three on the rack, if the middle one was pointing backwards.

Worst mileage ever: 38 Best ever: 49. The 49 was in September, on a trip downstate, without bikes or the ski box, but the bike trays still on the roof rack. The 38 is pretty uncommon. Usually average 45-ish in the summer.

Love it. Love the gentle diesel purr. Can hardly hear it inside the car, and when I'm stopped in the summer, sometimes I roll the window down so I can hear it. I think it is a soothing sound. And this car has more oomph than anything I've ever owned. And I got the stability control, so with a good set of snow tires it handles in the snow quite a bit like the awd Subaru Impreza Sport I used to have, even though it is just front wheel drive. I was worried when I bought it, because of where I live.

I don't know if they have the diesel wagons here yet. Mine is the old body style (2005, but actually made/purchased in 2004). There was some delay with getting the new diesel sedans in the US, and even the gas wagons were being released after the gas sedans.

[Tuckervill]

My Element is AWD and automatic. I never want to have to shift again, after I drove my son's Civic to Florida once. (My first few cars were 5 speeds, but now that I'm a grown up...no thanks.)

I pulled my husband's F150 out of deep gravel on the bank of the Buffalo River last summer, with my Element.

Karen

[IFjane]

My Element is AWD and automatic.
I pulled my husband's F150 out of deep gravel on the bank of the Buffalo River last summer, with my Element.

Karen

Mine is an automatic and AWD.

I have never pulled an F150 out of gravel on the bank of a river, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express once!

[OakLeaf]

It doesn't take much to have better traction than a Ford F-series You could look at our old F250 sideways and the truck would be sideways. That was before mice at the entire wiring harness

[Zen]

I have never pulled an F150 out of gravel on the bank of a river, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express once!

You're so tough it's scary