06-15-2015, 09:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2015, 09:35 PM by RolloTheGreat.)
(06-15-2015, 08:16 PM)gstanford Wrote: I don't tow boats or go bush or cart motorcycles around. If I did, I'd grab a Toyota pickup to do that. It wouldn't replace the Yaris for regular everyday driving.
You say you are nearly 50, well I'm 47 and I see the world the way most young people see it, you are already in your rocking chair in front of a fireplace smoking a pipe remembering how it used to be back in the "good old days".
I'm in a rocking chair by my fireplace?
I'm at my cabin or a rental cabin more weeks of the year than not. EVERY week of the year I'm out either fishing, boating, canoeing, duck hunting, or ice fishing. I even ride the young man's Honda 100.
How about you?
As far as my ideas being from the "old days":
http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2015/04/usa...gures.html
Notice only ONE car with YTD sales over 100K units sold? And that is a $30K car, not a Yaris.
http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2015/04/usa...5-ytd.html
And the top three selling full size pickups sell over 100K units, with the F150 and Silverado/Sierra almost selling 200K units. A lot more people here think like me than you.
None of which changes the fact that a full size pickup is the ultimate vehicle for utility, safety, and comfort, and it's just pretty dumb to buy a marginal pickup and a marginal car to accomplish the same thing one nice full size pick up could for the same price. (actually less when you consider 2X maintenance, 2X storage cost, 2X insurance cost)
People in America are smart: we don't shaft ourselves on safety and utility to save a few gallons of gas a year.