I think it's safe for me to say that the majority of our readers here aren't GenZ'rs. That being said, I do believe that the call on (us) boomers is dead on. I don't know a lot of guys who drive Silverados (maybe three?) but I know - and know of - literally a hundred or more men and women who drive F-150's..
I myself - not having ever owned any foreign vehicle - save for 'Spunky the wonder jeep', my sidekick I kept on St. John - drive 'Big Blue', my '05 F-150 that I love and my wife hates.
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Hey - it's simple, really. I know where everything is, what works and what doesn't, it has a cigarette lighter that I actually use, and the motherfucker now has 200,000 miles on it and it's still running like nobody's business. Why the fuck would I ever wanna trade up - or sideways for something else. It gets me where I need to go. That's all I need. How about you guys? Anybody else hanging on to something similar? Chime in...
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1999 Toyota Tacoma 300,000 miles AC still works. Runs well no rust!! McIntosh Fl
ReplyDeleteBorn in 1956 2004 F250 V10 122K miles and not getting rid of it anytime soon
ReplyDelete1957 Driving a 2024 CR-V.
ReplyDeleteCars were always just transportation to me which is why I bought reliable, good on gas Japanese cars. If I were rich I'd have a couple muscle cars. Have you seen the new 4x4 motorhome from Toyota? I want that.
ReplyDeleteBoomer here - 2005 GMC Sierra 2500 HD pickup. Crew cab, turbo diesel, no DEF
ReplyDeleteBoomer's wife - 2013 Toyota Camry
2005 Ford F-350 still running strong. It will be running when we are gone.
ReplyDeleteWe have a Camry and a 4-runner and would never consider another brand besides Toyota.
ReplyDeleteI'm older than a baby boomer. My daily driver is an eye catching Camaro and my 1970 Corvette hobby car
ReplyDeleteis on hot standby in the garage.
You might say that new cars are designed by the Feral government because they all have to meet CAFE standards.
The reason so many people drive pickups is that government CAFE regulations have reduced most cars to the same ugly "Chubby Teardrop" designs. But pickup trucks with larger physical footprints (wheelbase x tread width) are exempt from some, or all, of the cafe standards depending on size.
When is the last time you saw a new Station Wagon?
Thanks to CAFE standards the last full-size U.S. built station wagons were the 1995 Chevrolet Caprice Classic and the Buick Roadmaster,
Officially a Boomer, but with a Gen X brain (64 model). I drive a 2017 Toyota Avalon with 253,000 miles. Still runs like a top, no smoke, no oil usage, no tics from the timing belt. Until recently I also drove an '05 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder.
ReplyDelete1960. Run a 2012 Tundra bought used in 2015 with 41k on it. Traded in a 2008 POS Chevy Silverado that gave me nuthin but trouble from day 1. Tundra's got just over 250K on it. All I've had to replace other than the preventative maint stuff is an AC compressor & a set of brakes. Summer ride, when it's not raining, is a 1979 MGB.
ReplyDelete2000 Silverado 2500 with almost 400k on the clock. It's old, tired and well beaten but it starts every time and it's a workhorse. The radio works, the AC doesn't but I don't care. A man only needs a few things besides God. A good woman, a good dog, a good truck and a good gun. The order of importance depends on the immediate surroundings and circumstances!
ReplyDeleteI'm 70 and live in New Zealand. I have a 2010ish Nissan Cube stick shift, 120,000 miles and cheap to run, a 2015 Nissan Cube 100,000 miles and cheap to run (but has a CVT transmission I need to get serviced regularly), a 2023 Peugeot 205 with a wet belt and only 10,000 miles (a hanger queen I guess but it's nice to drive) and a 1992 Isuzu ELF truck with a tipper and about 250,000 miles but really simple and bullet proof. Wife chases modern but I buy old Japanese because they are cheap, simple and I can look after simple myself.
ReplyDeleteThere's a market here for US pickups and muscle cars but they are pretty expensive so I'm never going to have one.
I predate the Baby Boomers by about 3 years, thus I drive a 1996 Volvo Wagon (Turbo of course!)
ReplyDelete1961. I have two Outbacks and a Ram 2500.
ReplyDeleteI drive a 57 Chevy, if I need to pull the boat I drive a 82 pickup. My wife has a Honda something.
ReplyDelete'63, end of the boom...02 ram w/180k bought new, runs like a singer sewing machine. never an issue except normal wear n tear items. stepped up to an 07 titan, same. traded/ sold two new trucks in between. they were junk, in the shop every other week. one f150, one ram. i watched a new truck burn on the side of the road a couple weeks ago. tow truck driver says he hauls more new ones than old these days. 80k, burning?
ReplyDeleteBoomer here. I drive an '18 Ram 4wd 2500 Diesel w/ manual transmission. A '04 Jeep Rubicon w/ manual transmission and a '17 Suzuki DRZ 400. Starting to restore an '82 Toyota 4wd pickup with of course a manual transmission. I love being a dinosaur.
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