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Originally Posted by mddubya  My F-150 has 204k on it now and runs like a top. The 4.6 V-8 barely uses any oil between oil changes and the tranny shifts perfectly. ( knock on wood). I'll be keeping it to pull my boat with, just need something that won't kill me on gas once I move down to my Dad's to help him out.
I wanted a new Nissan Titan, I can get a great deal on one through my job, but those things don't get but 15 mpg. I just can't justify buying something that gets that crappy of mileage with gas prices what they are now. |
I hear that. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I really need cargo capacity, since I haul a bunch of heavy electronics around all the time (I regularly fill the back of my truck from the bed to the cap.) I'd love to get a fuel-efficient car, but can't do it. I'd love to set my truck aside and use it for work only, but then BAM! it'll break, and I'll be stuck hauling a trailer with a Scion.
Sad thing is, my stupid male ego won't let me buy a van like the Honda Odyssey - which is of course the perfect solution.
(In a gruff, manly voice...) I needs me a 4x4 so's I can go huntin' and fishin.' And I need's me somethin' to be haulin mah stuff aroun' with too...
Seriously, I am not driving into the woods in a Honda Odyssey, even though I could go 90% of the places I need to go. May not take me everywhere I want to go, or dream of going; but neither will an Xterra, when you get right down to it...
Common sense is so under-rated...