New car rant

Last new vehicles bought were a '99 Camry for the wife and 6 mos. later I bought a '00 Durango. Friend wanted the Durango so I sold it in '03, right at 3 yrs. old.
June of '08 I bought a Flame Red '06 2500 Laramie for the princely sum of 17,500. :D We retired in Jan. '12 ( had a shoulder replacement and couldn't do any heavy lifting- main requirement as a dealer tech) and had been blessed with a grandson in July '13. Forward to '17 and my wife has been driving the '06 as her DD for a while now. I had noticed she was having trouble getting in even with the step bars (she's only 5'2") and had been after her to trade the truck for a Charger. Seemed like every time she was ready some idjit in a gas station would tell her nice her truck was. :rolleyes: Finally she agreed to it but with one requirement. She wanted a Challenger. :eek: OK.... So we wind up trading the truck (only had 120k on it) almost even for a '16 Challenger SXT. Drove it for a little over a year and got rear-ended and totalled. Bought an almost identical '17 ('16 was white, '17 is black) and ponied up about $1500 over the insurance check.
Mama's happy and it is nice to go out and get in a fairly new car to go somewhere. :) I still have my beater '00 Durango 4x4 I bought in '16 but don't think I would road trip in it. :p