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  • biak1
    biak1 Member Posts: 4,237
    4 Runners are nice but you pay for the name somewhat. Engine is a little dated but very reliable. Tacomas are nice trucks, I'd consider getting one next time. I'm a Toyota fan for a reason, no problems with them, they run well, and keep their value if re-selling is your thing.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,676
    This thread is useless. I have to buy a car next month. What do I get. I don't drive anyone else in the car ever. No girls ever see my car until we've already smashed so I don't care about it from that perspective.

    I just want to buy and forget about it and not look ghetto.

    I don't haul or move shit either.
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  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,515 Founders Club
    edited February 2021
    RaceBannon said:

    I bought a new Sentra in 16 for 17 grand. Oil changes and new tires in 5 years

    Runs great. 40 mpg. No payment

    Car payments suck the life out of you

    100% this. The most important poont in this thread.

    One of my two dads put 300k miles on an '86 Acura Legend whilst building a $1m house - when $1m meant something ...

    Why borrow money - pay interest - on a depreciating asset?
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,281
    Swaye said:

    I drive a 1985 Jeep Scrambler that belonged to my Dad. Will quite literally climb up a mountain, as I've done it. When the solar flares come I will laugh at all you idiots as I drive right on by while you fight over dog meat in the streets like Venezuela or some shit.


    You will also have bullets and beans. So there's that too!
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,281
    pawz said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I bought a new Sentra in 16 for 17 grand. Oil changes and new tires in 5 years

    Runs great. 40 mpg. No payment

    Car payments suck the life out of you

    100% this. The most important poont in this thread.

    One of my two dads put 300k miles on an '86 Acura Legend whilst building a $1m house - when $1m meant something ...

    Why borrow money - pay interest - on a depreciating asset?
    agreed. i drove a new 2004 Toyota Sequoia (or, more accurately, my wife did) and took to to 3 fiddy. basically raised the kids in that thing. she was fucking work horse. and honestly, we took shit care of it. id' go 30k without thinking of changing the oil. about the only preventive maintenance I ever did on tim was the timing belt/chain, which the Japanese auto makers scare you into doing on tim. Only did it that one tim btw. At some point while moving my kid out of an apartment with a big U haul trailer in tow, white liquid was blowing out of the hood on the freeway driving back. Got back, the radiator had finally had it, drove to the Kirkland Toyota dealer hoping the freeway air would keep it cool enough, it didn't, bitch was running with the needle firmly in the red on the temp gauge, replaced it, got another 60 to 80 out of her, and then when I started smelling weird shit that made my eyes water, I figured it was tim. Sold it to some dude for 800 and I still see it driving around town.

    Intend to do the same with the two I have now. And I will never, ever own another BMW again. I had a coupe, beautiful and fun to drive, that I got 150 out of and it was pain, suffering and $$ the entire fucking time. Never again. I just don't care enough.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,281
    Pitchfork51 said:

    This thread is useless. I have to buy a car next month. What do I get. I don't drive anyone else in the car ever. No girls ever see my car until we've already smashed so I don't care about it from that perspective.

    I just want to buy and forget about it and not look ghetto.

    I don't haul or move shit either.

    I'm with @PurpleThrobber here: get yourself a good Japanese car. Go simple or go cool, you have that option, but go Japanese. JMHO.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,281
    PurpleThrobber said:

    1to392831weretaken said:

    PurpleThrobber said:

    We are an Asian car only family - Toyota, Mazda and Nissan.

    Never have any issues with them. Ever.

    @RoadDawg55's peeps make sweet rides.

    Mazda is so massively underrated.
    The Throbber has a CX9 - best fucking snow car EVER. AWD, throw some studs on that bad boy...like a snow leopard chasing down its prey.
    Mazda's are criminally underrated. For some reason, they are the least expensive of the Japanese line-up. Toyota and Honda (their luxury analogues) carry a higher sticker and get away with it. I haven't owned one but every person I know who has loves their Mazdas and swears by then. Subaru is like that too.
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