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thanks. I have had 3 Frontiers, including 2 brand new ones. I usually get a new truck every 5 or 6 years and they are no problems by the time I sell them......typically around 80,000 miles no major problems.

But I don’t know if Nissan is gonna be around so I went with the Ford Ranger XLT with the 4 cylinder ecoboost, 270 Horsepower. In reading up on these turbo engines, some people are saying they won’t last long and are essentially “disposable” engines. The guy at Nissan tried to sell me the new Frontier which is not a turbo, but a nice strong V6 delivering over 300 HP. I guess I just liked the looks of the Ranger too......so we’ll see........but since I sell at around 80,000 miles......it may not affect me.

I usually get a new truck every 5 or 6 years and they are no problems by the time I sell them......typically around 80,000 miles no major problems.

Whew! I can't imagine getting a NEW car or truck every 5 or 6 years, unless by "new" you meant a used car that's new to you. I have 190K miles in our 2005 6-cyl Ford Explorer SportTrac. Not a big truck, but when I need more cargo space I pull the trailer. It's leaking oil pretty badly and will cost too much to fix. But on the flipside, my wife and I do almost all of our driving in our 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 anyway to save gas. So I may just keep putting oil into the truck if we're driving it just a couple of thousand miles per year anyway.

The Ioniq 5 (an EV car) has 75K miles in 3 years. Will I have to replace the battery in it (or replace the car) at the 10 year mark? I don't know. On the one hand it would seem so if I have 250K miles on it. But on the other hand, almost all of the miles we put on it are slow charged (level 2), which is supposed to be better at making the battery last longer than the level 3 fast charging on road trips. The other factor is if we'll need it for long trips by then anyway. It may be by then that the pickup is replaced and it would be the newer, more comfortable car to take on road trips. If so, then we could keep the old EV with the old battery indefinitely because it won't matter if it no longer has a long range (that matters only if it's a car for long trips). And of course, that's even assuming that the rest of the car isn't falling apart at 250K miles anyway.

So my decision on when to replace the Ford Explorer truck is based in part on how it fits in the overall decision on needing at least one nice car for most of our trips.