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amg_rx7 wrote:Hehe. How about "Nothing German, except Cotton's cars". :)
I was partially kidding when I said nothing German but I guess I wasn't the only one with a VW and BMW that didn't like to start after sitting for very long. Mine usually couldn't go beyond a week or two.
I can agree with the battery issue on the BMWs and even my 944, but a battery tender is cheap, so I guess I just don't see it as that big of a deal.
RossD wrote:I think the Nothing German and a stipulation would be more prudent. "Nothing German with a Trip Computer"
I drive one BMW in the summer and a second BMW in the winter, so they both sit for months at a time (I do disconnect the batteries.) They always start right up when it's time to get them out for their respective driving seasons. They are pretty old (1986 and 1988) but both have trip computers. 
I have left them for as long as a month or more with the battery hooked up and they still started, but for longer periods it's easy enough to disconnect them.
I think disconnecting the battery or a battery tender is the solution to the "nothing german with a trip computer" comment. Fancy aftermarket stereos with a bunch of memory settings will drain batteries too. My jetta would fire up after the battery was re-juiced. Hell, I went a couple weeks with only parking on hills to start my car; luckily my parents house was on a hill. 
spitfirebill wrote:The big problem with any cars or truck sitting now days is gasoline with ethanol, espcially in vehicles with vented tanks.
I get the ethanol thing, I think, but what's the correlation to vented tanks?
Hmm, thanks for the ideas guys.
I would think an existing Tacoma that one already owned would be the most cost effective vehicle to have sitting around as the backup vehicle.
