huge-O-chavez wrote:
Dude.. I think you need to re-evaluate what you really need in a vehicle.
How much are you going to be towing?
5k - 7k lbs max. Which oddly coincides with the tow limits on a 3/4 ton Suburban.
huge-O-chavez wrote:
How often?
Not that often. Often enough that renting something to tow is going to be a PITA.
huge-O-chavez wrote:
Do you really need 4x4?( Really need it? like will you need to tow in 4x4?)
I really, really, really need 4x4 out here for winter, as does my wife. I don't necessarily need to tow with 4x4, but I do need a reasonably high clearance 4x4 to get to work when the snow hits. Like 3-4" of snow during the time it took me to mount two sets of chains to the CJ type hits.
huge-O-chavez wrote:
How much stuff do you need inside?
Depends how often we go to Ikea 
. We do sometimes need a four seater with luggage space, but something the size of a large station wagon or a Grand Cherokee is big enough unless we visit a furniture store. Ann's Cherokee is just a little too small occasionally.
huge-O-chavez wrote:
Would a $1000 cargo van and a $2000 subaru do?
Weeeeell.
Both don't exist out here in a usable form. Trust me, a 1k molester van is about to return to nature out here, as will be a $2k Subaru. Plus, with insurance constraints and constraints on the time I have to swear at these vehicles, four cars/trucks is really the maximum I can handle without turning our yard into a junkyard. Assuming the CJ goes, the fleet list would look something like this:
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Wife's 4x4 Cherokee
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Our C4 Convertible
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My 4x4 that doubles as an occasional tow vehicle
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My gas saver DD that doubles as an HPDE and maybe Auto-X vehicle
The last two slots aren't filled at the moment, the last entry on the list looks somewhat Miata/E30 shaped although there are a couple of strange vehicles in the running, too. But before I can fill that slot, I'd better get the tow vehicle slot filled.
