![]() At 522 miles round trip, it’s not even a close call. For the King of the Road (numerically speaking) of Orange County, a road trip to the closest thing to a king’s castle in the Golden State. One-tank trip price: $61.79 (at $3.34 per gallon).(For full color images of listed vehicles, please see: MORE PHOTOS) So, fill ‘er up, hit the road and remember our mantra drawn from decades of car commercials: “Your mileage may vary.” Or even your junior high report (if you take x gallons and y miles …). We totaled up the numbers, rounded the figures and then came up with a trip for each of the vehicles. The main difference is in the cost of filling up for the trip. Big trucks and sport utility vehicles get less mileage but have bigger tanks. Small cars have higher gas mileage but smaller gas tanks. The result isn’t as wild a difference as you might expect. We researched the 10 most popular series of vehicles purchased in Orange County last year and added two wild cards: the gas-thrifty Toyota Prius and the guzzle god Hummer H2. How about some one-tank trips? Fill up the car and you can get there and back. Great news for the House of Mouse, but hardly the kind of epic road trip that summers past were built around. When asked where they were spending their vacations this summer, the most popular answer from members of the Automobile Club of Southern California was Anaheim. But unlike the frog who didn’t realize it was being boiled to death because the heat was turned up slowly, motorists have noticed gas prices go up, up, up past $3 a gallon. In real terms, the spike in gas prices has only added about $15 to the price of most road trips. The soundtrack of summer this year goes “glug, glug, glug.” …sadly gas prices were alot lower at that point… Note: This story was originally published in May 2006
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