looking for some truck advise

[Serren]

I'm averaging 47.2mpg in my Prius...

[Justintiime]

I wonder what kind of trade in I could get for my FJ towards a prius lol. I saw a prius the other day. WTF is with the car starting when you hit the gas pedal?

[ZoomZoom71]

Originally Posted by namehater

btw- my wife has decided on a pt cruiser, we test drove a couple and were pleasantly surprised with them

I bought my wife one back in October. She loves it! I enjoy driving it too. Ours has the Turbo "lite", but it still does pretty good. Gas mileage on the turbo is only about 21-22 mpg in the city. She drives less than 10 miles one way to work each day.

[MadBryan]

Originally Posted by Justintiime

WTF is with the car starting when you hit the gas pedal?

Just like a golf cart

[Elite Ronnie]

I got a 05 king cab silverado z71{got a camper to pull so I have too}
and get 17 mpg local driving so you may as well get a full size compaired to the dakota. For what ever reason dodge always got a lil worse gas milage than chevy's or fords. I'd say either go with a smaller truck than the dakota or go ahead and go with a full size. If you can do without 4 wheel drive you can find some ok priced used ones if you want a 4 wheel drive with less than 70,000 miles I think you might as well buy new because 4 wheel drives hold there value too much.

ps. We got a 5.60 interest rate on my wifes explorer and that was 2 years ago the feds have lower'd rates even more. Thats something people forget to nagotiate when buying a new car and 1 percent makes a difference over the life of a 4 or 5 year loan. the dealership said something like 8 percent was the best we could do so we went to a credit union {which was one of the places the dealership said they checked with} and got 5.60

[namehater]

we do all of our financing at a credit union, when we bought the denali we got 4%, but the lowest we can find right now is 7% unless we finance through a dealer on a certified preowned, but we like our credit union because its very small and they treat us pretty well

i havent bought a truck yet, so all options are still open, the only reason id like to stay away from a full size is because of the size of them, ive always been a car driver and feel most comfortable in smaller, more agile vehicles. i need to do some number comparison on the dakota and some full sizes to check interior space, but i couldnt imagine them to have much more space inside, the dakota is pretty damned roomy

but gas mileage is pretty much all spot on the same with midsize vs full size, doesnt make much sense to me, but oh well

btw, just a little update, some guy from NC was talking to me about the denali, but i heard from him over the weekend, he said he decided to go with an 03 suburban for 15,800... i didnt say anything back to him, but i was thinking.. wow i guess you get what you pay for lol, suburbans arent even in the same league as a yukon denali lol. i also dropped the price of the denali to 19.4k which is the payoff, im to impatient i want that thing gone now lol

[Justintiime]

Originally Posted by MadBryan

Just like a golf cart

Same chassis, Prius just has a metal shell