Beware Having REI Set Up Your Canyon - Potentially Dangerous Fail

Yeah, my payments were around 100 a month so I ended up paying more than 10k but the price was 10k out the door, fully loaded which I think the only options were air-conditioning and a dash clock. It only held 10 gallons of fuel but I could go 500mi. on a tank. It had 62 HP but it weighed less than 2,000 lbs. Our current compact SUV, a GMC terrain weighs over 4,000 lbs. and gets 30mpg if you go easy with it. 252 HP with the 2.0 liter engine. After owning the CRX-HF, every other car is a gas hog. It even got better MPG than a toyota prius hybrid. My motorcycle is a 34 year old air/oil cooled 1100 CC Suzuki Katana that gets 40 MPG on a good day riding it easy. Being retired, we really don't go anywhere now so fuel prices aren't that big of a deal but when the wife and I were both working, the cost of fuel would have put a pretty big dent in our budget. I remember someone promising gas would be 2 dollars a gallon and our utility bills would be cut in half. Everyone cheered. Hell,they still cheer, I don't understand it
 
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I just checked. It was a 1996 Civic HX VTEC with a five speed and a 115hp engine. It had alloy wheels but no AC. I did a bad thing. I traded it in in January and for $15 I purchased and installed an AC switch to fill the dummy plug in the dash. When you pushed it a blue light came on. But I never said that it had AC! I used blue nail polish to paint the 'H' in the center of the wheels so it looked a lot like a BMW. Living in Marin by the GG Bridge, I didn't need AC. The fog rolled in every afternoon.

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