Interesting article but I can't see myself driving anything else regardless of how high gas gets.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...d=family-autos

 

I'll keep my truck and get a commuter car after college... but I'll always own a truck (hopefully the one I have)

 

As long as my wife and I own a 5er we will have a truck capable of doing the job. We aslo have a fleet of about 14 p/u's at work for delivery and sales vehicles.

 

Ill be in mine for the next little bit (and the foreseeable future) because no one seems to want it, and no lots want to give me a good deal on it.

I still run 93 in it even though its just stock (sold the tuner) and after adding it up and doing some thinking I would be better off just keeping it anyway.


I get 16/16.5 MPG, and drive 40-50 miles a day, call it 50 and thats right at 3 gallons a day.
I can touch 18-19 MPG on a longer trip.

Unless I got a car that was gonna get better than 25MPG daily I would be better off just paying the truck off.

Even at 25 MPG its still just a gallon less a day, $20 a week, but at the cost of a longer payment and/or a larger payment.
No thanks.

Unless I can walk away selling for what I want, or trading out of debt its not worth it.
If its already paid for no reason to trade it in when I could buy a cheep beater.

Hell I already bought a 9mm over a .22, and thats not cheep either.

 

Quote: About half of the pickup market -- the buyer who didn't need a pickup for his work -- evaporated over the past decade. That same buyer isn't likely to return as he has in the past, industry experts say.

And good riddance to those buyers! Maybe now the prices of them will drop for us\those who actually use them for working, hauling, towing, etc.

 

I see how it is.

Well, maybe not I do pull the foreman on its trailer, and sometimes find things in the bed of the truck.

 

Having the administrative assistant at work roll up to the office in a full size crewcab pick-up with the obligatory "Cowgirl Up" sticker in the rear window made no sense anyway. I welcome a return to an era like the 1960's or 1970's when pick-ups were more utilitarian in nature and less "look at the size of my schwantz" suburban social climbing.....

Although, in this new environment I still don't understand why Ford has decided to completely abandon the Ranger? If they just ran with the existing platform they could update the interior, exterior and engine for relatively few dollars and have a fairly modern interpretation of a small pick-up that would sell quite nicely in the market.....

Get ready for the other shoe to drop soon, however, as the bureaucrats begin to realize that folks driving around in Fiesta's brings in a whole lot less gas tax revenue than people driving around in F-150's.....

 

WHY??????? Waste of money.

 

Sure doesn't seem to be the case around here.

 

I'm not worried. Once fuel-cell/hybrid technology advances, large trucks will make a comeback.

From the article: "As for consumers' shift away from big pickups, Henderson said GM is seeing the "personal use" buyer now opting for mid-sized "crossover" vehicles such as the Chevy Traverse and Equinox or the Buick Enclave, which have big cargo and passenger capacities, but are smaller and more fuel-efficient. They get about 24 miles per gallon, about 50% more than that of pickups."

Mr. Byrt has been smoking some Ganja with that thought !

 

Hmmmm............ my F350 is getting close to if not 20mpg on the hwy with a tune in it not bad for an 8200lbs truck.

 

Here either....

 

will I ever get rid of my truck, nah. Will the prices come down on new trucks because the yuppies no longer think they're the hip thing, nope. Ford and GM know they have us by the ----- and will drain those of us who need a truck.

I got a commuter car that gets 34MPG so I don't have to drive the truck 60 miles every day. That's double the best mileage I ever got in my F150. I got tired of ______ $120 a week away in fuel, also saves the resale value on my truck. I gave 750 for the car, so if it survives until winter I've saved more money then I spent on the beater

 

Trucks are the best, I would trade the expy anyday for a decent pick up

 

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