| One of the consequences of Canada's high gas prices is the prevalence of propane conversions. In the Greater Toronto Area, a fair number of vehicles, typically in fleet use as taxi cabs, airport limos or construction vehicles, get converter to run on propane gas. The conversions are expensive, running approximately $5,000, and if you want to see any return on your investment, you better run the car well into the six-figure range of the odometer.
On the other hand, these cars make some great used car buys. With the conversion already done, you get all of the benefit of filling up for approximately $2.50 per gallon, and the vehicles are typically robust, hard wearing cars like Ford Panthers, full-size pickups and W-Body GM cars. Amid the million kilometer Town Cars and Caravans (ex airport taxis, no doubt) there is a diamond in the rough. A beige one. For $1,800, there's a 2000 Grand Marquis with 487,000 km. I'm one of the few dissenters when it comes to Panther Love on this site, but the price is right – both for the car, and for the sub-$50 fillups. Not that I'm considering it or anything. It's for a friend… from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com | |||
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