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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Tyler Durden on January 05, 2013, 07:44:37 PM
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To say I am innundated by the choices vehicle options would be an understatement. I am leaning towards a truck, maybe an SUV. This is my basic list so far:
1. 4X4 ( or if a crossover SUV maybe front wheel drive)
2. 4 seats or 4 doors (packing two weimaraners into my 2 seat F-150 sucked)
3. bucket seats in the front
4. Cruise
5. Air conditioning
6. AM/FM radio
I am towing anything... Don't have horses, a boat, a Seadoo.
So what other things do you like features-wise in a vehicle?
Thanks!
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For a brand new vehicle I'd have to add Bluetooth, IPod connectivity and more than 1 12v connection.
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Sirius/XM satellite radio, in case you're in those places that can't get Rush,Hannity or Beck.
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This may sound stupid but...
Jeep, Jeep and oh yeah it has to be a Jeep. Open air, steel frame, real 4wd that has not been wussified to appease the soccer moms and its just a beautiful icon of Americana. Get yourself a Sahara Edition and you get all kinds of goodies but really just test drive one and tell me there isn't something special about this American made SUV.
Yes, yes, I know they are Italian owned but the Italians are awesome! What other company has brought some of its production back from mexico?
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They don't make a new car I want anymore!
I don't need more electronic gadgetry and entertainment in the vehicle than I use at home.
I also do not want or need all the computer controlled braking, acceleration, 4wd, differentials, etc.
My '76 k2500 with a 400 small block and got 15 mpg on the highway. My '05 k1500 with a 5.3 gets 15 mpg on the highway. I step on the brakes today and the anti-locks start cycling and I slide, but back in the old days I could pump the brakes and stop. In fact that is what I do today. Used to be if I needed more traction I just reached down and pulled a lever. If it didn't engage ... It always engaged! Today I need to push a button on the dash and wait for heaters and motors to engage. Then, if everything is working and I haven't torn a 16 ga wire off in the field, the anti-locks start cycling to gain "ultimate" traction.
The only thing, and I mean only thing, I can say I like better in our new vehicles that I didn't have in 1980 is heated seats cold weather startability - Fuel injection does have one benefit.
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If you were new vehicle shopping, what are your must haves
A Toyota emblem.
Think about the TV coverage of 3rd world sh!tholes that are in the midst of a civil war, the trucks you see with the AA guns mounted in the bed are Toyotas.
The show Top Gear tried to kill one, it never died.
My Toyota trucks have been virtually bulletproof. You can find better gas mileage in its class but nothing that is more worry free.
One family member likes their GMC Acadia. Seems nice but still too new to know if there are any issues with it. A no sale for me 'cause that ones not 4WD.
(on edit: I don't know if that family member has AWD-it's still a no sale because I hate OnStar!)
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Getting old here and back trouble is setting in.
Drive a 2000 Camaro Z28...and my only requirement in a replacement is the best gas mileage reasonably available and some thing I can get up into and down out of instead of down into and up out of.
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Sirius/XM satellite radio, in case you're in those places that can't get Rush,Hannity or Beck.
I'm reminded by 'she who must be obeyed' and has XM in her car, that Rush isn't on XM....maybe Beck too for all I know, my truck is too old to have XM, but Fox have their own channel!
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I also don't like OnStar.
I also don't like companies who took bailout money.
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An SUV built on a shortened truck frame, not some wussy "crossover".
4 doors & seats 5-6 adults.
Push button 4x4.
All the normal conveniences like cruise and A/C.
CD player with XM radio.
Towing package.
Preferably cloth seats.
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I don't care who made it (although Mitch has a good point about Toyota being #1 in every low tech, service is a dream 3rd world sh!thole ) where or what gadgets it has .
The only thing I require is absolute dependability.
When I turn the key it starts, drives to and from where I need to go and does not quit running until I turn the key the other way.
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I'm reminded by 'she who must be obeyed' and has XM in her car, that Rush isn't on XM....maybe Beck too for all I know, my truck is too old to have XM, but Fox have their own channel!
Rush 24-7 membership.... Never missed a day in the last 8 years even if I don't get to listen live. But I do get a 3 hour show in 1 3/4 hours :D
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1) Tacoma Access Cab, V6, 4 x 4, 5 spd Auto.. Large enough for what you need and towing a reasonable load.
2) My daughter has a Ford Escape that is a great little SUV for far less money than anything from Toyota at the moment! Nothing for off road work but it's quite capable here in the Northeast.
Both have all the bells of two or three 12V outlets, auxiliary (Ipod, Iphone), SM, and GPS options are available.
Nothing from Chrysler or GM for me! At least for the remainder of my lifetime... f..k 'em for taking .gov (my) money... besides, look at the aft end of the new Corvette! Looks like the ass of a baboon!
For my daily, it's gotta start, it's gotta stop and it's gotta get 30 plus mpg... 2011 Focus SE for 15K new! I'll drive it for ten years or more. I've lived in the north nearly my entire life and I've not needed four wheel propulsion yet! Not saying I wouldn't have it but I don't find it critical to my life.
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Is the back seat big enough to screw in. lol
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Is the back seat big enough to screw in. lol
I've managed in an original Mini....though I was about 100 lbs lighter then...nuf said!
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My 1996 Ford F-150 4x4 SWB with a small V-8, power this, that and the other, auto-tranny will have to do for me. Less than 30k miles, but had to put new tires on last spring as the old, original rubber was beginning to smell bad. Too much road kill on em, I guess. I reckon if I put an XM radio in her, I'd consider her to be new! The old 1980 Toyota 4x4 pickup, that I had before the Ford, rusted out badly. My wife loved that Toyota, but there are somethings a man has just gotta do. Yup. Then again, if a Jeep Wrangler were to fall in my lap, I might just get generous and give the Ford to my son...maybe.
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How do you have a 96 F-150 with less than 30,000 miles?
What does SWB stand for?
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What does SWB stand for?
Short Wide Bed.
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SWB (short wheel base) >:( ;D
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Sorry guys, I was watching football. But SWB stands for short wheel base. It's a full size truck with a 6 1/2 foot bed vice 8 foot and its wheel base is shortened accordingly. Fits neatly in a garage where I keep it when not using it. So, it's well maintained, mostly out of the weather and sun. To keep it under 30k, I only use it when I need it around the 40. I never used it for a commute (120 miles) vehicle when I was working unless the weather was really bad (snowstorm or blizzard). Today, my son uses it as much as I do in order to haul construction materials to his house and a gazillion leaves to the recycle center. Here in MD, I wouldn't use a truck as an everyday vehicle, only for the things it was designed for. If I lived out west I might feel a lot differently. For everyday I use a 1996 Toyota Camry LE 4 dr and yes it has XM radio. Guess I'm spoiled!
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If it has 4wd, can tow my boat and my fish house, haul dead deer and/or a jon boat & 10 dozen duck decoys, and make it through a foot of snow or a plowed field, I'll drive it.
You can keep all of your silly technological whiz-bang gadgets and whatnot. I'm not fooled by gadgetry or window dressing.