beater mini trucks, whats best?
Its real hard to beat a Ranger for what you want. The 2wd, 4 cyl, 5 speed trucks will pull high 20s for fuel mileage pretty easily but still have enough grunt to haul a bed full of stuff. Around here you can get a mid to late 90s 2wd ranger with less miles for the same $ that would get you an early 90s toyota with well over 150k miles. Ive had 3 Rangers and will continue to keep buying them for cheap dailys until I cant find a good one anymore. Sucks they discontinued them, my last one had over 300k on it when I finally had to retire it. The good old 2.3 4 bangers are pretty indestuctable, with the only real "weak" point being the timing belt, but being a non interferance motor thats not an issue and the belt is a cheap easy job. And like others have said, buy a 5 speed truck, the autos in these arent the strongest.
This is my current Ranger, nice basic truck that gets 28mpg highway and 24mpg in town.
Its real hard to beat a Ranger for what you want. The 2wd, 4 cyl, 5 speed trucks will pull high 20s for fuel mileage pretty easily but still have enough grunt to haul a bed full of stuff. Around here you can get a mid to late 90s 2wd ranger with less miles for the same $ that would get you an early 90s toyota with well over 150k miles. Ive had 3 Rangers and will continue to keep buying them for cheap dailys until I cant find a good one anymore. Sucks they discontinued them, my last one had over 300k on it when I finally had to retire it. The good old 2.3 4 bangers are pretty indestuctable, with the only real "weak" point being the timing belt, but being a non interferance motor thats not an issue and the belt is a cheap easy job. And like others have said, buy a 5 speed truck, the autos in these arent the strongest.
This is my current Ranger, nice basic truck that gets 28mpg highway and 24mpg in town.
