I have about 5 grand in cash to play around with and I need a used pickup. I don't know shit about vehicles. What is a good reliable pickup to buy in my price range?
>>14244975
Cummins
>>14244975
What are you going to use it for?
Read the sticky m8
>>14244994
Just an everyday driver. Recently got laid off from a job that provided me with a company vehicle and I need something to get to work and back when I find a new job.
>>14244994
This. what do you need it to do? Offroading? Towing? Or just hauling trash?
>>14244975
Fiero with a body kit
Or Miata
>>14245017
I'll be using it for all these things.
>>14245016
Mid ninties two wheel drive Tacoma, or Nissan Hardbody/Frontier.
>>14244975
GMT400
M
T
4
0
0
>>14245016
Toyota pickup 2wd or 4x4. Get an EFI model
Mazda b2200 2wd
Mazda b2600i 4x4
Early 90s Ford f150 with the straight 6
Early 90s chevy 1500
Mid to late 90s ranger 2.3
All good trucks
The Mazda b2200 and Ford ranger will be the best mileage
>>14245031
Then you'll need something american, F150, Silverado or Ram, as what I mentioned >>14245032 here are shit for towing or offroad.
And 4x4 versions of jap trucks will be out of your price range.
>>14245042
>trucks
>gas mileage
A mid size truck is going to get within 5mpg of a full size. You'll have more interior space, more utility, and look less mexican in a half ton
>>14245044
Tacoma out payloads and out tows an F150.
Not sure about chebby or doge.
>>14245056
Just throwing it out for info you angry autist
It swayed my decision in buying a truck
>>14245063
It swayed your decision because you're an idiot.
>>14245069
For what I do with my pickup. Mileage is a factor.
Sorry youre so mad about how I spent my money
>>14245063
>Out tows an F150 with this.
ISHYGDDT
>>14245079
Yup
>>14245076
I'm telling you that the mileage is barely different. Are you so poor that the extra 3mpg your getting by going ranger over f150 makes any difference in your budget at all?
Chevy or gmc 1500
>>14245099
23mpg Mazda b2600i vs 10mpg F150
90% of the driving is freeway
I spend $30 for a 300 mile round trip
My uncle and grandpa spend $100 round trip in their f150s.
I can haul just as much wood as they do in the bed of my little truck. Or a 4 wheeler or dirtbikes and still maintain 23mpg.
I'll save $70 per month on these trips
>>14245116
>10 mpg f150
Lol no, unless they are running some ridiculous lift or something
Im even doubting 23mpg in the little truck.
My experience is 18-20 in a little truck and 15-18 in a half ton
>>14245116
A 5speed F150 gets around 18 at worst on the highway.
>>14245116
>Or a 4 wheeler or dirtbikes and still maintain 23mpg.
Now you're just trolling.
>>14245116
>I'm a pathological liar
>>14245166
>>14245174
>>14245180
>>14245191
>get btfo
>You must be a liar!!!
Facts are facts. I spend $30 for that 300 miles. They spend $100.
Not just one of them. Both of them in two different F150s.
>>14245206
Dude a full bed of wood or having a 4 wheeler in the back is going to make you have shit gas mileage, unless your truck is some magical machine that disregards physics.
>>14245221
Did you miss the 90% freeway?
The sticky was literally created for threads like this. OP, I'd suggest taking a look at it.
Not OP, but how about pic related for $600?
1985 S10 with the 2.8 V6, I haven't gone to look at it yet but talked to the owner on the phone and he said it just needed 2 tires and rear axle seals to pass inspection.
>>14245245
You can do better
>>14245230
Doesn't matter, your going to see a reduction in fuel economy when your towing and hauling. Also, unless your uncles are running some kind of mud bawwgers built on 80s f150s theyre getting better than 10mpg empty. Mine make about 14 when I'm towing a trailer.
>>14245231
The stick doesn't cover jack shit for trucks
>>14245230
Don't fucking matter if its free way or not dumbass.
You're carrying more weight the engine has to work harder to maintain speed.
>>14245245
The 2.8 is a fucking dog, but ill run forever up until its start spewing oil everywhere, and maybe even after that.
Find one with a 4.3
>>14245257
>>14245268
Yeah, I'm on the fence. This would be a second car, and since my primary vehicle only has 20k miles I miss having to fix things.
>>14245265
So I'm stupid for saving $70 per monthly trip? Sometimes more than once a month.
>>14245267
>>14245267
The sticky has got trucks on it not that it matters because its almost 10 years out of date and completely worthless if you're not in north america
>>14245271
Well if its a second car then I don't see a problem with it. I Hated my 2.8 s10 when I had it though. Constantly something wrong with it.
>>14245284
Oh wow it mentions 5 trucks.
So comprehensive!!!!
Omg I know every truck ever made now!!!!
>>14245275
Youre stupid for lying to strangers on the internet about fuel economy in some sorry attempt at damage control.
>>14245288
Sticky was updated last year, if you have a problem with whatever its stating then start a thread about it.
>>14245296
Not lying. I know how my pickup performs.
You're bench racing about mpgs.
>>14245294
That really is anout all there is for cheap trucks in NA. Ferd and Chebby (dodge is decrepit shit) 1/4 and half tons and the SUVs built on their frames, and tacos (tundras are out of your budget). Mazdas are fairly uncommon and mostly beat to death, ridgelines and avalanches are not real trucks.
>>14245042
>Mazda b2600i 4x4
Add the Mitsu Mighty max, because the Mazda used their engine.
Also the Mighty Max/Dodge Ram 50 in general.
Probably that, the 22R yotas, KA/VG Hardbodies are your best bet.
The 2.3 in rangers is a joke (It's a pinto engine), the 2.2 Mazda is a joke (Why not the 2.0 FEDE?!), the 3.0 in the middle 90's for toyotas is garbage.
Get something either with a 4GXX, 6GXX, KA, VG, or 22R for jap.
American: Ford; 4.0 V6, 300 I6, 302 V8. Chevy; dunno. Chrysler; read above.
>>14245305
10 mpg is not realistic mileage for an f150, even when theyre towing.
Whatever you do avoid Craigslist it's a bunch of curb stoners, morons, and hidden dealers.
>>14245328
>Mazda used their engine.
Only on early models and they were know to be unreliable as fug.
B2600 was mitsu
B2600i was Mazda G6 engine
>>14245342
Yes it is.
4x4 extended cab (3door)
Ive done that trip several times in both f150s its about 10mpg
>>14245305
And I know how my F150 performs when towing a car, it doesn't even drop below 14.
Unloaded I get 18-20 with economical driving.
>>14245328
>2.3 in rangers is a joke
How so. It's reliable as hell
>the 2.2 Mazda is a joke
Also reliable as hell
>>14245368
they both make shit for power, and the FEDE is more reliable.
The Lima is junk and was only saved with FI, and in NA only stuck around because of twinspark.
>muh reliability
is moot if the truck can't haul anything.
You want reliability? get a ford F150 with a straight six.
>>14245350
Ah good to know. Don't know shit about the G engines.
>>14245365
Thats about right, you'll notice that >>14245305 also claims in an earlier post that his 4 banger shitheap gets the same mpg towing as when he isn't towing.
>>14245411
>don't make shit for power
>recommends a bunch of trucks that dont make shit for power
OK then
>>14245428
Never mentioned towing
>>14245411
>ferd gay6
>not chebby tree fiddy
C'MON
'
M
O
N
>>14244975
Buy my 1995 Ford F150. 4.9L inline 6, automatic, rwd, longbed.
>>14245436
HAHHAHAHAAH
this idiot thinks an F2 and 2.3 lima make more power than a 300.
s.m.h.
>>14245445
350 is also good, and probably as reliable. I've owned more fords than chebbies though so just my experience.
>>14244975
Get a 4.9l f150 or even a 4.6 v8. I used to drive a 4.6 and used to get like 20mpg highway. Both are really durable engines
>>14245063
https://youtu.be/qPsmSm7klZw <<Taco vs Ram
https://youtu.be/7UbCnj8aMc4 <<Taco vs Silverado
https://youtu.be/Cfv_4A406OQ <<Taco vs F150
So there you have it, american trucks are best, but ford is and always will be a shit.
>>14245541
Ahahahaha
>pigfat trucks need huge brakes
>smaller truck doesn't have the power to move such American pigfat trucks
None of this proves anything other than full size trucks weigh more
>>14245582
"LOL BRUH, BUT BRUH THAT TRUCK IS HEAVY" Its a fucking truck, not a Ferrari. Also lol "BRUH ITS JUST BECAUSE AMERICAN TRUCKS ARE HEAVY" No, you fucking moron, its because the american trucks actually make torque, and pulled harder than that shitty Japanese truck. In america, we make reliable trucks that PULL, we don't give two shits about how fast it is, its a TRUCK. Basically with your logic, you lost that arm wrestling match with your girlfriend because she's 400lbs, not because you are a weak shitposter.
