My 1st truck was a base model nissan, bench seat, manual everything.
Beat the absolute hell out of that thing as a teenager, jumping it, doughnuts, mudding it, even caught on fire from an amplifier wite with no fuse. Went 10 years and 300+k before first problems AC, then cooling system (never flushed it), head gasket and then differential was final straw. 2nd truck was a 2000 Nissan Frontier king cab manual, didn't keep it long enough to break it in.

Grandpa had one of the first Toyota trucks. I fell in love, epic fishing trips. Just had to have one too.

HA  Nice!

yeah... my dad had a 1995 4 banger, that had 250K (and he only changed the brakes) until it was totaled in an accident.

When I used to commute from St. A to JAX, I still wanted a truck, but something fuel effient, so I test drove a base kingcab Tacoma, Ranger and Frontier... Tacoma was a little smoother (but felt like a lowrider) and Frontier Felt most rugged & had the most zip (and was a few Gs less) so I went with that...... I've beat it like a rented mule since (towed a boat, construction, etc)  Test drove it with 4 miles on the odo... got 204K now.  No complaints. AC has been toast for awhile but these days I rarely leave the island......  Until I drove through a tornado spwaning feeder band preceeding Irma.  That was sketchy as hell, and It did something foul to my little burro

Next one will be a V6... want to pull a boat again.  The new Tacos look real nice, but people are proud of those things!

Indeed they are and they hold their value amazingly well. Great if you wanna sell but not so much if you wanna buy a used one.

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Love my Rangers. Have owned two Toyotas (1974 and 1980, both SR5s) which were great (except for the rust on the 1980 version), one Datsun (1969, 1200cc, could climb a wall in 1st, but undergunned otherwise, but, still a solid vehicle), and at least three Rangers. Loved them all, but, for the money, the Rangers have outlasted all others. I now have a 2004 and it still looks and runs great. It has the bigger V6 (4.0 liter), which is not great on fuel (20 mpg), but, I loooove this truck. I was very happy to hear that the latest UAW contract brings the Ranger back to the US.

'04 Frontier here. Paid $5k with 70k miles.

Coming up on 200k miles with nothing but tires, brakes and AC compressor.

Routine 27mpg commuting.

When are they gonna make trucks like that again?

This! (not the "edit" part, Howard's observation, doh)

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"When are they gonna make trucks like that again?"

Tom, Tom, Tom, , , , you poor ,ignorant, fool, everybody knows that having built-in 4G LTE Wi-Fi is more important than petty things like mileage! LOL

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I had a Frontier for work and it made it to 280k. It had been under water, had the radiator ripped open and driven 40 mile almost on fire, had a hole knocked in the tranny fluid cooler that drained it dry, which I fixed in the field, refilled then drove 120 miles home. Yep, that thing was bad-ass.

I wanted another Frontier or the Toyota, but they got me the Chevy instead. Oh, and the F150 that I had before the Chevy blew the 7th cylinder at 105 thousand miles.

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I had a zombie frontier as well, it was owned by friends parents then used by two of their kids: high school through college, then I beat the crap out of it for several years.

2000 five speed, I think I sold it with 295k miles, and years later my Dad's buddy pulled up to visit and after a little checking verified it was the same truck( I think it had 315k miles) running strong!

Cole crazy to think you and your son talking about cars, I think last I saw him he was at Roberto's with a pacifier in his mouth!

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I think last I saw him he was at Roberto's with a pacifier in his mouth!


Life is fast as shit, especially when you get older. I might quit sleeping for a few months to see if that slows things down.

Carpe fricken diem is all I can say. Live now or it's gone forever.

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Three weeks later and the part has come in. Now I'm into the second day of the repair.

Oh, and one more issue with the truck. It had a plastic skid plate. I say had because it's now in my recycle bin and not under the truck where it's supposed to be.

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