Another dead car

[Eracer]

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...

[mddubya]

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.

[Eracer]

Originally Posted by mddubya

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.

Lets' go muddin'!!!

[ezra76]

Originally Posted by SiberianDVM

I've been looking on Autotrader.com at ............................

2006 Acura RSX Type-S

Just as soon as I get a new job, dammit.

You'd like that car. Very similar to mine in the Type-H. Honda has some great cars that can be driven for mileage but fun to get on it once in a while. An 06 should be less than 20K I would think.