Need the MPG

[Guest]

Ok..

Well.. I am going to possibly be being a truck. Problem is, with my gaming addiction (lol?), I have been invited to play for a team that is going to pay me to travel to the winipeg area once a month or so. I need a truck that will get pretty good MPG on the road. I know I wont be getting 30 mpg like some cars, but I dont want a car.

Anybody have any suggestions on a truck that would get decent milage? In town should be decent as well please.

SuGgEsTiOnS PlZ?!?!

Thanks!

BTW - Looking for something fairly new, but not brand new. no old ancient shit either

[PSiedTSi]

S10 with 4.3?

[Jim]

Lexus RX400h

[BlueSRT0483]

Considering SUVs(Mid-size) at all? or do you need the box for shipping stuff?

[amicheze]

PSiedTSi wrote:
S10 with 4.3?

yup.

[Afsil80]

PSiedTSi wrote:
S10 with 4.3?

I got one for sale....needs a little work.

[Joel]

my dad has a 98 v6 tacoma and hes clocked 27 mpg before on the interstate

[MisterCMK]

a 5spd ranger gets 24mpg in the city and 28 on the highway. The 2.3 is a reliable motor.

[Joel]

MisterCMK wrote:
a 5spd ranger gets 24mpg in the city and 28 on the highway. The 2.3 is a reliable motor.
but you couldn't tow car if your life depended on it!

[Guest]

I was kind of interested in a blazer, but my parents just bought my sister a blazer.

Chris - You and your fords... shit on you

wannabe - Nice. I may have to do some looking.

PSiedTSi - S10's are nice, but kinda small. Kinda lookin' for something a lil bigger.

Jim - You paying for it?

[MisterCMK]

wannabe wrote:
but you couldn't tow car if your life depended on it!

You can't do that in any small pickup.

S10 with the 4.3? Laugh.

[KA-T_240]

we towed a car from the cities with a s10 with a 4.3L at 70mph no problem.

colorados are extremely overated as far as what the are suppossed to get for gas mileage.

our old 98 sanoma zr2 got just over 18 back and forth to sioux falls with the cruise set on 80. get one with a 5-speed that isnt the off road addition and it would probably be decent

[91nbtsi]

MisterCMK wrote:
You can't do that in any small pickup.

S10 with the 4.3? Laugh.

I pull shit all the time with my S10. Pulled my car down to Sioux Falls and back, pulled a guys car home from Salt Lake City, UT, pulled a car to Iowa, etc. Only had problems in the mountains...slowed down to like 50 on some of the big climbs;) Works great. I get 19-20 mpg pretty much all the time.

If you are going fullsize though, GM is going to get the best mileage.

[Guest]

I dont do much towing... so an S10 would be fine

I actually do like them, but I like the fullsize trucks to. But S10's will get much much better gas millage than a fullsize.

Thanks, I'll keep the S10's in mind

BTW - do s10's get expensive to fix?

[Afsil80]

Depends.

I shelled out $1800 for a new 4.3 long block. I just got back from a deployment so it was no biggie.

[RidinRails]

s10's are cheap to fix...find a zr-5 or a zr2

[PSiedTSi]

MisterCMK wrote:
You can't do that in any small pickup.

You can easily with a Dakota...

An S10 isn't that small really. 91nbtsi drives one and he's not short... Just get one with 4 doors or an extended cab...

Our V8 Durango gets 18mpg on the highway because its full-time 4wd, so I know if you got a Durango/Dakota that was switchable 2wd/4wd, it'd easily get in the 20s...

[MisterCMK]

Dakotas are pieces of shit. If you like driving trucks that have shitty balljoints, trash heater cores every 20k, and are just plain pieces of shit, then yeah, get a Dakota.

[PSiedTSi]

Our Durango has been good to us...

[KA-T_240]

My Jeep is an awsome vehicle. but isnt the easiest to work on. well put together. hasnt ever broken down, its a 97, but the AC is ghey, and i dont care to fix it, we the flapper that goes from hot to cold doesnt close the hot side all the way and its 26hrs labor to do the job not including the parts. GHEY