We are all feeling the pinch at the bowser in recent months and its likely get worse.

Should they reach $2.00 / L will you?

Give up your beloved Magna?

Drive like a granny?

Buy a Diesel?

Buy a small car Eg.Colt, Jazz, Barina?

Where's the option for i don't give a sh!t i'll drive it the way i damn well feel like?

I forgot that option?

maybe you have too much money... about sharing with us...poor people.

Sell your car, pay an extra 10k and buy a small more fuel efficient car, instead of paying $10 extra per week.....will take 10 years for you to make that money back.
I'm a big guy, i need a big car. I was going to buy a lancer but found they just seemed cheap interior wise and the car was physically too small for me. Alot of people will always need a large car, and the magna is probably one of the most fuel efficient anyway, apart from maybe the camry but then you don't get as much power.
Anyway what i'm trying to say is, and i know quite a few people would be in this boat too, i'll always need a large car, and no matter what petrol is, i'll have to pay it. I don't drive like a granny, but i don't boot it all the time......sometimes :P.

We get pay rise at Coles every Feb and Aug till concluding August 2007, i'm $60 per week extra, so petrol prices isn't affecting me too much

none of them, i will drive less, not left footed all the time as i normally do!:redface: , + i just brought my new car plus i'm paying it off for next 2yrs.

Good point M4DDOG, i never thought of it that way.

Brother just bought a magna 99 model.... he didnt realise they had a 70 litre tank
and he's pagying double now coming from a 90 model prelude....

I think the main difference will be that people will hesitate more when thinking about going for a drive. Instead of just jumping in the car for the hell of it, a lot of these trips won't be done.

eg., I was thinking about going for a surf today, about 250-300km return, which means about $40 worth of petrol. Instead of just going, I checked the reports and webcams, and came to the conclusion that, even though there was some OK surf, it didn't justify $40+ being spent.
(that said, I essentially get about 100 of those km's free compared to city driving, so I guess only paying for 150-200km...)

As M4DDOG said, the price difference between paying that extra bit per week and buying another car is not justifiable. I'm going for the (mainly) cruising option, and cutting the unnecessary trips.

I think I need to get my pushbike fixed... I need to do more excercise anyway.

I have a 3ltr te aswell as a 1ltr swift which i drive to work cause it costs me to much to drive from dandy to lilydale everyday. it costs me $35 to fill up and i get 400km from the 1ltr swift or $90 to fill the te up and get 550kms so i agree wateva the petrol price's will be ppl will still fill up at $2ltr cause the have to but they wont be happy about it

If I had the money I'd upgrade to the new Audi A4 TDI Quattro. Twin turbo (Bi-Turbo in Audi speak) 3.0 V6 TDI, 171kW and 450Nm of torque with an average fuel figue of around 8.7l/100Km :P

Im with Leigh "who cares" it doesn't reall bother me i wish you had that option in the poll lol
I pay to use my car which is what i love doing, its worth the entertainment, fun and excitement if i wasn't paying for the fuel to be doing that i would be at the pub wasting more $$ :)

Won't change me.

Infact a V8 is on the cards for the next car purchase.

i think there wouldn't be much better car i could get, its fairly quick and ues like anywhere bwtween 10-13L/100 so goes well and doesn't use lots of fuel

:stoopid:

i didnt exactly buy a magna thinking it was fuel efficient :) if fuel hit over $2 a liter i might curb my stupidly long trips that i seem to be taking evey other day for no good reason... albeit i dont even read how much $$ i put in the car until i go to pay for it, and even then i soon forget. I dont have regular driving times/hours so i cant compare it every week..

meanwhile i was at a petrol joint the other day filling up for around 138.x , and while doing that, the chick comes up and changes the sign to 145.x ... huge bloody leap. i made sure i got charged 138 though :P

I've certainly stopped driving less in recent times. Lots less in fact. When you are a pov *** uni student, petrol prices really hurt.

Seriously considering a little zippy car soon.

Not gona change anything, I just brought a skyline gtst, so that will guzzle even more fuel, got enough cash, worse comes to worse I’ll make my own alcohol and run the car on that. My mate has been doing this in a 74 Hillman Hunter he converted himself for about 2 years now, works a charm.

Fuel is expensive, but nothing compared to global markets, for example, I just got back from Switzerland, where fuel is 3.4 franks, that's about $5Au, and in Poland it's $2.60 Au and people make 2/3 less money, so it's even worse.

I think the PM said it best on this issue of petrol price. Cheap petrol is now a thing of the past, get over it. I guess you just have to watch your trips more closely now. Still wont stop me though :)

Poor uni student option??? LOL i with Tim-E. I hardly get any money, so its time to begin catching the train. If i only have to fill up once every 1 1/2 weeks and if it means catching the train, ill do it. Prices are crap, it sucks, but in the end only we cant do too much about the prices.

wont affect me at all. will still drive the way i do. but do have another small car (4sp rolla lol this thing is so cheap to run) so drive my car in the weekend. but the fuel price wont be affecting me.

catching the train and buses to uni costs me between $6-9 (depends on whether i catch the private bus from home to station), when using the magna, $20 worth of petrol will get me to uni 4 tims a week, so public transports isnt cheap(when comparing to just petrol) :)

catching the train and buses to uni costs me between $6-9 (depends on whether i catch the private bus from home to station), when using the magna, $20 worth of petrol will get me to uni 4 tims a week, so public transports isnt cheap(when comparing to just petrol) :)
public transport owns driving for me.
I live in pakenham, i work in the city about a 50m walk from flinders street (for melb ppl). Takes me about an hour and a half by train, costs me $52 a week.
Driving - 2-3 hours depending on traffic.
Parking is just a smidge over $20 a day.
In parking alone i'm saving money, than theres petrol, wear and tear. I think i worked it out to be nearly 2-300 for my to drive instead of $52 for the train. I know what my choice is :).

None of the poll options fit me. I doubt it'll change the way I drive much, since I hardly drive the Magna as it is, but it will still suck each time I do fill up. I go with my gf to work everyday in her echo which is relatively cheap on petrol, and her workplace has free parking.

M4DDOG: You probably work pretty close to me.

M4DDOG: You probably work pretty close to me.
Wherebouts do you work? I work in southgate in the IBM building.

I will most likely stop driving my car if it reaches $2.00/L

Something about using $500 - $600 in fuel each month isnt right..

i hope it hits $10/L might get some idiots off the roads :rant:

nothing we can do about it.... unless...:badgrin:

nope nothing.... unless...:badgrin:

can i convert to natural gas, and tap into the gas mains, getting the pressure would be a problem in filling it though... some beans may help :bowrofl:

otherwise 50cc scooters or bicycles for us all.....

i hope it hits $10/L might get some idiots off the roads :rant:

nothing we can do about it.... unless...:badgrin:

nope nothing.... unless...:badgrin:

can i convert to natural gas, and tap into the gas mains, getting the pressure would be a problem in filling it though... some beans may help :bowrofl:

Dood, grab a teatowel and wipe your mouth.. You got so much brown stuff dribbling out its becoming unbareable...

actualy the local bus company runs on cng! i was talking about it with one of their drivers a while ago... i have no idea of the cost of it though, proably end up being more than lpg anyway

if petrol pirces reach $2 it may have some positives

it may push alot of ppl into public transport, we may all end up getting to work quicker, less traffic and pollution woo lol

most people here are very sure they will continue with their driving habits and cars with v6 and v8 engines.

I have driven and owned v8, v6 and currently 4 cyl car and i can tell you from personal experience it will make a huge difference at the end of the day.
there are efficient smaller cars or Diesels which in VW GOLF out performs the petrol equivelant.

I drive 30,000 - 35,000km a year on average...

i dont know the ratio here, but when you have a kid,mortage and one income then come back and tell me if you are still driving a magna or v8 @ 2.00 / L

cheers

I'm still running at 44c/l. God i love LPG. :D

My other car which is my current daily as mine get fixed is another matter.

Carburetted 6 cyl :confused:
Has to run on Premium with lead additive.

I bought my TL VR AWD in February - at the time I looked at the options of (at the time) getting a 2003/4 ES Magna vs a new 1.8 - 2 litre 4 cylinder. The maths on petrol consumption alone suggested a 7 - 8 year payback for the extra spend getting the new 4 cylinder. I know it's not strictly comparing apples with apples - but for me the magna offered so much more than a smaller 4 cylinder.

I tend to keep my cars for a long time and I reckoned that the bigger sized car will have more longevity as well as comfort in day to day use as well as for long trips. I also rationalised that should the car prove too expensive in petrol I could also look at a gas conversion - even though I don't do a high mileage (about 15,000 a year) keeping the car over a long time would pay back the conversion cost.

Anyhow I decided to go for for the VR AWD (lovely car) and got it a good price - buying a car is not just about economics after all, you have to have some fun in life. The car does mainly shortish journeys around Melbourne and a fair bit of stop start motoring during the week according to the trip meter I'm getting around 15litres / 100 kms and spend around $60 a week. This is our main car - I use public transport during the week and we have a 16 year old pulsar as a second car, we both work so I'm probably shelling out an extra $20 or so a week.

To sum up it'll not really change our habits - I thought of looking again at the gas option but my wife is not too keen to loose the boot space, and I'm not that certain that a VR will conver to gas (can it anyone).

Cheers

i wouldn't sell my car n get another one, nor would i drive like a granny. I may stop the oh so random drives to nowherefor no reason though.

dual fuel magna = win :D

I enjoy driving. I dont smoke, i dont take drugs, and i rarely drink. Driving is my addiction. if the price of weed went through the roof, potheads would still smoke it. Therefore, if the price of petrol went up to $3/L, i would still go on a big *** 500k cruise every couple of months like i do now, and i'd take my v6, and thrash the crap outta it, like it do now. Nothing will change. :)

it wouldn't stop my thrash habibits, but it would stop the 'lets go crusing for the sake of driving'

i think people are just goign to have to face the fact that the prices are high and will only get higher, you can whinge and whine but its not gonna change the prices.

as for me, i'd rather spend money on driving then drinking cause, drinking isn't as fun as driving to me, and its so much easier for me to go driving to a place then spend say 30 -40$ trying to get a taxi from the city to home

I usually drive with a light foot but still give it the odd bootful whenever I get on a freeway approach ramp. But I wouldn't consider selling the maggie. I need a big car, I like the space, refinement and engine. Plus I commute to work by choo so it's only a 10 min drive each way to the station which is less than $20 a week in petrol.

being a uni bum im poor, but if driving were the only thing i did it would not change at all. as its not, i barely go for cruises or random drives...must say 2 years ago i went for random drives at least twice a week! now i just do the other things i want to do and just drive to get to my destination really, not that i do much milage, maybe 7000km a year!

The petrol prices aint affecting me as yet, $2 a litre will be hell although ill get over it!!

and yeh i might sell the magna, but only to get a 98 3.0L twin turbo VR4, that will love the $2 a litre petrol prices!! lol

i'm managing low 10L/100km out of a V6 that puts out nearly 130kW ATW. i drive the barina more for work now, not so much of the fuel (barina uses about 7L/100km) but less time on the road means less chance of getting defected, and driving through the suburbs i have to get to work its bound to happen sometime.

once i've changed a few things so the car will be 90% legal, i'll definately keep driving it more, hell, its worth the extra $20 a week!

i personally will still drive just as much as i do now,fuel price wont change my life .i understand how those who do have to travel alot to work are feeling it in the hip pocket .rising fuel prices may mean rising public transport prices ,in the end the government are always going to be the winners along with car manufactures who will keep making smaller economical cars .(its a cruel world )

just ride a goat to work

i use a couple of tanks of petty a week now.

if fuel went up to 2 dollars a litre i reckon id still drive just as much.

theres no need to inconvienience my self by refuseing to pay 10 bucks extra to fill up...

HAHAHAHAHA wat servo are getting you fuel at Here in Hobart it's 0.99cents a litre.:D Oh thats right thats wat i pay for it at worklol SUCKERS

They'll stop me from driving my car when they prise it from my cold, dead hands.

I'd sooner give up cable internet and eat cheaper than give up my car.

HAHA, this is the reason why I can be seen in a 2001 Nissan Pulsar Q hatch these days ;) I manage around 9L/100km including the daily 9am and 5pm HORRIBLE traffic jams and over-zealous driving on the weekend. The magna did about 14L doing the same things..even with less 'stop start' traffic.

Well to be perfectly honest I'm getting around 7L/100km from the manual 3.5 TJ.
To quote the poll, I already "drive like a granny"!

But I'd be reluctant to give up the smoothness and ride quality of a Magna/Camry/Maxima sized car.

But if it protects the car and saves me $$ in fuel, then it's all good isn't it!

Took a honda jazz sport for a test drive the other day, as im looking at getting one as a second car for the wife. This little thing has as much damn space inside as my TJ (including better rear seat legroom and still has a fair boot), paddle shift cvt tranny works brilliantly and supposed to get ave.6 litres/100km. Even though this thing doesnt have the oomph of the magna, it is definitely a fun thing to drive, handles unreal, and rides as well if not better than the magna over rough surfaces. Small fuel efficient cars have come along way and are worth a look.

I can't stand cars which have little space between driver and passenger and between shoulders and door trim. My rule is that the driver and passenger should be able to rest their elbow on the centre console lid at the same time comfortably. If they can't, the car is too narrow and one of the reasons I sold my Corolla. All of the small cars I have been in I foujd cramped until I sat in a Jazz a couple years ago at the Motor Show. For a small car, the drivers area was very roomy. The Euro Accord wasn't bad either. The worst car for interior space considering it's size would have to be the BA/BF Falcon. The header rail and A pillar are too close (probably doesn't help that the seat can't been lowered enough), the windscreen too raked and the drivers footwell too cramped.

If i drive to uni 5 days a week, which is about 80kms return, i'm pumping about 70 dollars a week. being a sufferer of urban sprawl and poor public transport system, i don't have much of a choice. in general:

uni student + unreliable/inconsistent source of income = broke

staying at home spending time with family + studying = absolutely priceless.

If i drive to uni 5 days a week, which is about 80kms return, i'm pumping about 70 dollars a week. being a sufferer of urban sprawl and poor public transport system, i don't have much of a choice. in general:

uni student + unreliable/inconsistent source of income = broke

staying at home spending time with family + studying = absolutely priceless.
At least youve got the right attitude, good family does rule. If you get the chance, give a honda jazz a whirl (halve your fuel bill!) + fun.

meanwhile i was at a petrol joint the other day filling up for around 138.x , and while doing that, the chick comes up and changes the sign to 145.x ... huge bloody leap. i made sure i got charged 138 though :P

thats nothing, i have seen a 14 cent leap from 131.X to 145.X, but after they change the sign, they give it a bit of time before ti changes at the pump.