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Originally Posted by Eracer  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... |
I've never bought a new 4x4. Personally, there is no way I could take a truck I was making payments on and do the things to it I do with a 4x4. When I lived in Florida I had the perfect 4x4. A 1978 Dodge Ram PowerWagon. 360 V8, new transfer case, both rear ends had just been redone, 8 inches of lift, 16x38 Monster mudders, painted camouflage and it didn't have a straight piece of sheet metal on it anywhere. It had this front bumper made out of 2 inch pipe with a grill guard made onto it. We used to go out and see just how big of a tree we could run over,
Damn I miss that ugly truck.