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Don't count on it being a temporary car...If you are like any of us - you will be hooked on the 240's utilitarian and modern design, mechanical simplicity and longevity, and resource communities like brickboard. Cars you never noticed before - a yellow 79 wagon, a black 93 Classic, an 83 rust heap with 480K miles on it running around a college town in the Northeast as though it was new - you will now look twice, or three times. You will check the mileage of Volvos you walk by on the street...
Anyway, you pose some good questions. If there aren't many responses, you may want to post them again. Brickboard gets dozens of posts a day and this will probably move into "archives" (or at least off the first page) later today.
I am also tempted to move to synthetic for longevity reasons. My 244 loses no oil whatsoever right now, and I am hesitant to move to synthetic an have it find my tiny leaks.
As for gas mileage, I just drove the 244 from San Diego to San Francisco and back last weekend, and I got 28mpg. I'd like to do better, but it is a heavy car and a large 4cyl engine. I usually get about 24 driving around town. My fiance's 245 got about 26-27mpg on a cross-country drive last summer (Northampton MA to San Francisco CA) with an absolutely FULL load - I was absolutely impressed with how that car did.
Best of luck.
-pu
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((1992 244, 100K)) ((1987 245, 270K)) San Diego
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