My biggest issue with replacing my truck is that they do not have a lifetime powertrain warranty anymore like mine does. Unless mine gets totaled, I don't think I could get rid of it. Another Ram 1500 would be the proper replacement due to towing the trailer, but I would love either a new SRT8 392 Challenger or a new Boss302 Mustang.

 

That’s nice to know. Personally, I think that a regular Durango R/T looks just as good as the Jeep SRT8, so I figure a Durango SRT8 would look even better.

 

I've actually been contemplating this lately. I haven't been thrilled with my truck. I have wanted a Ram since '94 when the 2nd gen's came out. I bought an '07 in June of '08. I love the look of the truck, and I like driving the truck in general. However, it seems like there's just suspension issues all of the time, the blend doors are broken, and the seat sucks. These aren't huge things, but they're annoyances that I haven't fixed yet.

I am really missing a modern sports car. I have a motorcycle and a vintage Mustang (poor me, right?), but I miss the real power and fun of a modern sports car (the vintage 'stang doesn't count). Nothing I do to the truck will make it a sports car.

I bought the truck because I liked it, had wanted one for a long time, and was planning to haul our motorcycles around (to make it easier for my wife to ride hers by trailering with the kids somewhere, etc). However, I haven't ended up using it for towing it all. So it's basically a gas guzzling pavement queen which only gets about 4k miles a year put on it.

However, I'm not sure I can part with it either. It's my bad weather driver, fits the kids, dogs, etc, and is extremely handy to have around. I know the second I sell it, I'll be annoyed that I don't have a truck anymore.

Best case scenario would be to add another car, and keep the truck, but that doesn't work from a money perspective, or from a space perspective. Maybe I should just add a sport bike to the stable to give me the speed thrill?

joe

 

I wouldn't say NOTHING you can do to make it a sports car. Granted it wouldn't be a car, but you can get suspension kits that will make it handle like one. You can put gears, exhaust, tuner, CAI, and MANY other mods to make it faster, including a supercharger that'll make it just about as fast as most reasonably priced sports cars out there...then give the weight handicap, or find sports cars in your weight class, and I bet you'd be hardpressed to find much (under $100,000) that'll touch it; and if something does in fact beat it, go my route and say, lets hook up trailers and run again. Agreeably, doing all of this would have about the same financial impact of purchasing another car, but it'll def. help with the space constraints of yet another vehicle.

(edi) On a different note, get the sports car, yank the bed off the truck and put a flatbed on it and park the car right on the truck...that solves the space issues.