Late model used v new if your paying cash disregard this. I tell my customers that are looking for low mileage late model vehicles to be sure and price new with payments and interest calculated to the end often the interest rate is a lot less on new rigs insurance will be about the same but your not popping for new tires brakes and a 30,000 or 60,000 mile service I the day you buy it. Theres usually a reason someone is selling a perfectly good almost new car or truck and sometimes it’s that fact that its almost due for everything above plus that one thing that doesnt work or they broke thats $400 on top of everything else I just mentioned.
If you do not necc need the size of a full size truck look at the GMC or Chevy Canyon/Colorado I have a 2018 diesel. I love it. Fuel mileage is decent towing is impressive for this size of truck and combined with the fuel mileage. I tow 7000 pounds with the Canyon a few times a year and my main trailer weights close to 6000 pounds most trips its perfect for this. The odometer on this tuck is spinning like a clock. Everyone in my family drives it and I’m Ok with them in it if other family members will need to drive it the smaller tuck is a lot easier for them to handle it and it parks well to. I would buy this truck again if something happened to it.
New vehicles are better than ever. They do still have issues and when or if you get bit by a weird wiring or computer related problem you’ll understand the complaints. But in reality were looking at things out of context. or old school wise. Like the post above about the cost of an alternator. OK I eat up a cell phone every couple of years There $800 to $1000 I spend more on shoes and cell phone service every year than most do on repairs or maintenance on a newer model car. Hopefully in 100,000 miles of driving youll only have one breakdown and it will be less than $1000. I think about the cost of boats and car repairs seem like nothing in comparison. Open the bonnet on a late model OB and youll think cars are a lot less complicated.
If I was buying a used half ton full sized truck it would be a GM with the 6.0. Highest resale ( which wont help you today) best driving trucks. I drive them all and own a fairly new Ford GMC and Chevy truck. i like the Ford interior and heater ac vents but the GM trucks out drive a Ford by a fair margin. I work on Toyotas and Nissans and they break to not impressed with fuel mileage or actual towing regardless of how they spec I’d feel safer in my Colorado in snow pulling a 6000 pound travel trailer than any Toyota truck even the Tundra and its fuel mileage is horrible with a load. My monies still on a Gm tuck. Hope my customers dont read this
