Unfortunately, you ended up in Phoenix.

 

Just until she gets back from Idaho. Then back to God's country: Cochise County.

 

I nixed the Tacoma. I had forgotten that Toyota suffered sludging problems in the truck engines and lied about it for years. Screw that. Also, after having been involved in a collision I pay heed to crash/safety data, which is the main reason I bought the Ram. The Taco scores poorly in protecting the driver's left ankle and shin whereas the Ranger performs very well.

On a side note - This sounded too good to be true: http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/ctd/3380255477.html

It turns out a friend of mine in Spokane saw the very same ad.

 

When was the sludge problem on Tacoma? Never heard about that? Mine is a 96 with 280,000 on it and no sludge or build up internally.

 

All those infamous Yoter Owner's that thought their Yoter never needs an oil change

 

Mine gets a change at 3K....only gone to 4K one time while on the road continuously! My dad was original ownere, and he would stop halfway on his trp to Colorado each year of it was coming up on 3000!

 

It's definately a scam. For some reason most of the scam ads like that one are listed by dealer instead of by owner. You can usually tell by the wording of the ad and also they never include a phone #. A dealer is going to have their # or business info on the ad.

 

Email the dude about it. He/she will say they are a medic bring deployed to afghanistan...if you only knew how many of these ads I have inquired about....

 

Just get a full size 3rd Gen Ram. They are cheap enough in the '03-'05 flavors as they are so plentiful.

I never really saw the benefit to having a "small" truck. I've owned a couple and drove a few as company vehicles. One company truck I drove for two years was a Ranger, 4x2, manual stick, 2.3L and it never got better than 14 MPG. Had a mid '90s Nissan V6 4x4 as a daily driver when my full size truck was a Furd Diesel. It was solid as hell, never had an issue of any kind and even hauled my bass boat to tourneys a few times when the Furd was laid up BUT it never got any better than 16 MPGs.

Hell, my Hemi averages close to 15 MPG and that's with 4" of lift, 35" tires and weighing in at close to 7000 lbs.

So from a gas consumption standpoint, I've NEVER seen the benefit of a cramped, small truck with limited storage and bed capacity...

 

For the price of a truck, regardless of what you choose to buy, think of what you can do to the Ram, maybe actually get it running! Unless of course you just wanna scrap it.