My paid off 2010 Sequoia limited with 289,00 miles was rear ended late november and we got the word the first week of december that it was totalled. We had quite a bit going on, so I've been driving our 98 single cab manual ranger. This would be fine, except that I sometimes have to tote my teenagers, and it's more than tight in the cab. Also, the wife can't drive a stick.
I loved the reliability and smoothness of the sequoia, but hated the 15mpg. It was also starting to get up there in miles.
I work from home and most of my driving is driving the kids to school and picking them up- figure 25 miles max a day- many days are probably only 10.
Because of all of this city driving, I began looking at the camry hybrid, accord hybrid and fusion hybrid. Fusion hybrid went out once I read all the reviews of the hybrid battery dying at 100k miles. Camry hybrid and accord hybrid are still on the table, but I'm not stoked about either being my car.
This has led me to expand the search and now I'm considering Cayenne diesels. There is a 2013 near me with about 80k miles and seems to be in good shape. Looks like I'd average around 24mpg rather than the 15 that the sequoia got...that's significant. Also, it's still an suv, and I like nice vehicles. I love that i'd have heated and cooled seats and upgraded leather rather than the rental car feel of the camry and accord. I've always been more of a "buy a nicer older car rather than newer and cheaper" for the same money.
I could go buy a new accord hybrid and it would likely last forever, but I'd probably be bummed to drive around an accord for the next 5 years. I suppose it's also possible I take over my wife's gx460 and she drive the accord since she drives more than I do.
Anyway- thoughts on accord hybrid vs camry hybrid vs cayenne diesel?