Ok, I guess I was pretty vauge about the trailer thing . . . I have a 10' X 5' tilt bed trailer with a "mesh" floor, it weighs about 6-700 pounds empty I guess, I sometimes put my garden tractor (5-600 pounds?) on it to bring it over to my house to mow the empty lot in back of us, oh, maybe 2-3 times a year, it is stored about 1 mi away, all flat, once in awhile, If I had something too big to fit in the trunk, that needed to go to the dump 1-2 times a year . . . about 4 mi oneway . . .I'm not planning on hauling a trailer around all the time, not that far . . .

. . . Still sounds like everybody is saying a 300 non turbo would fit the bill?

Are you saying that if I was to get an auto, and swap in a manual, I could use the manual from a 240? As one person stated above different rearend ratio between the 2 models . . . are trans same ratio?

My idea of "good mpg" is high 20's low 30's . . . my gmc gets 26 around town, up to 30 hwy . . . Volvo gets 27 around town, 32 hwy I don't expect good "safety features" in a lightweight vehicle, so like said above, being a heavy old tank is good, as I get older, I seem to tend to be more gentle on my skin and what lies beneith it!

CR TX I see now that I "edited" about the same time you replied to that one post . . .