I've been wanting to start towing to events (99% autocross). I've been extending my participation to more distant locations and it's physically hard to spend eight hours in a hard s Miata in one day.
I have a GMT400 Silverado but I wanted to get a newer old truck or SUV that I could count on and that wouldn't require a bunch of my time to maintain.
I've been shopping for a while, then last week my wife said she didn't want to spend any more money on her Mazda five. It's been a good car for us, but it has a problem with the evaporative emissions system that none of the shops have been able to resolve. We were facing a service at the dealer in Daytona, the same place that tried to sell her a transmission replacement for something I fixed with a drain and fill. It's had a few other minor problems, and needs some axles and she decided to have me replace it with something newer that she could daily and we could swap cars on the weekends that I need to tow.
It makes sense, I've always had her in the newest car, and we also need something reliable for family road trips.
I had been looking at Suburbans Yukon XLs, and Sequoias, and with the suggestion that we get a newer vehicle I added Expeditions to the list. The Toyota and GMs were really expensive, but I found a good deal on a 2021 Expedition Max in our choice of colors and the tow package at the local DeLand Honda dealer.
We had the best car dealership experience I've ever had buying it.
She told me this on Tuesday, I bought the truck on Thursday. While I was doing the paperwork I reserved a rental car hauler. We drove it home, I switched the draw bar from the Silverado and picked up the trailer.
Friday morning I drove to work, then drove down to Fort Meyers for the state autocross championship.
