I love my 4Runner
On my second one
It’s the perfect truck
I can out my whole family in and camping gear bikes and kayaks on the roof with ropes
For a work truck it’s perfect
It handles excellent
Last one had 300k and I gave it to teenagers across street
New one has 200k. And I just change the oil
Love it love it love it
Cars are just stupid when they you can have a real vehicle
I hate Priuses and am always saying “ lookout Prious !”
I can see I’m a mere bottom feeder on this thread. We sold a 20 yr. old Camry to a jobless patriot and just bought a 2009 Honda Accord for 4K-great car cheap with 135K miles. Needs a rear brake job.
We did consider a sports utility vehicle but my husband thinks they ride rougher than a sedan for long trips.
We also have a 2000 Jeep Cherokee
a 20 year old GMC box van (no AC/heat)- rebuilt trans
and a TDI Diesel VW Passat 2006
We stay busy with auto mechanics around here...LOL
My 2001 Toyota Highlander just keeps rolling along.
I have a 2001 Tahoe, assembled in Windsor Canada.
It has 209,000 miles and runs perfectly. There’s a couple of rattles...burns a little oil...and needs shocks.
I didn’t even get a single dealer service on it and the plugs have never been replaced.
Instead of cheap, plastic, unstylish, "crap cars", that all look the same. Filled with cheap, junk parts "manufactured" in third-world, hell-hole sweat shops located in Communist China and Mexuco that are then shipped back to America to be thrown together on an assembly line and branded "American nade" cars. Then most well informed people would still be buying them.
Our entire extended family hasn't bought a new American manufactured car in over 16 years, not one. And unless the above changes, we will never buy an "American car" again. And we are not alone.
In the 1970s American car companies were putting out junk (everything from AMC, the Ford Pinto, the GM Chevette, the Plymouth K-Car) and their reputations went down the tubes. The quality did improve but the reputations never fully recovered..
My 2006 Mercury Mariner is stop plugging along (actually much better than that sounds)
I ask myself what the benefit would be for buying a new vehicle. Mileage is roughly 24/34.
I’ll never go back to a sedan/ station wagon.
I have two vehicles right now - a 1937 Chevy pickup and a 1969 Mustang Fastback. I’m also looking at a 1970 Ford F100 for dirty jobs. I gave up on “new” cars a long time ago!
My 2015 Hyundai Sonata is the only sedan I own and it’s the oldest vehicle in my fleet. It’s probably the last sedan I’ll ever own.
I still love my 2010 Tundra that I bought new....still only 30k miles on it. My wife rattles around in her 1997 Jeep Wrangler...she still loves it at over 130k miles.
Last year I kept a promise I made to my bride about 46 years ago, I bought her a Corvette...a 2017 Z06, Supercharged 650 hp will take it from 0 mph to 60 mph in 2.6 seconds. It’s a beast....I have never loved a car like this one. It’s tame, quiet for what it is and it just purrs down the road, until you hit the throttle...that wakes up the beast inside this car.
About 18 months from now, I hope to buy a large luxury SUV. As one can tell, I don’t give a damn about any of the Global Warming nonsense.
Does no one worry about parking anymore? For city driving, I much prefer a smaller car over an SUV.
My 2004 GMC now has 304,000 and hardly gets a rest
Perhaps it’s because America cars are overpriced junk on wheels. I have gotten consistently good service out of my full-sized GM pickup trucks and SUVs, but my last six American cars — two Chevrolets, three Chryslers, and a Ford — all died from catastrophic drive train failures that weren’t covered by their warranties.
If I buy another car, it’ll be Japanese or Korean.
Where I live people spend $50,000 on a pickup or Jeep with all the off-road equipment, and then they baby the crap out of them. They will never be taken off toad and they will park in the far corner of a giant parking lot so their precious babies don’t get scratched or dirty. Same thing with Hummers when those were popular. I still see Hummers on the road that look like they just rolled off the showroom floor, and didn’t they stop making them about 10 years ago?
CNBC and Robert Ferris are completely wrong. He is simply giving approved messages from the government, such as “Oil is a limited, fossil fuel.”
Cars sold in 2017 = 1,374,507.
Light duty trucks sold in 2017 = 2,736,308
Some car sales are down 10% compared to twelve months ago, probably because of political correctness (Ford) and boring cars (Hyundai). Volvo sales are up 200%. Amazing.
my sweet ‘94 Mercury Capri 2 passenger convertible (basically a Mazda Miata) gets me to and from the golf course just fine!
All because of these sadly Designed, Crappie Engineered, over Womanized, pieces of CRAP!!!