New trucks are overrated, change my mind

[Alan]

These new trucks cost $70K and half the features just break or you never use them. Give me a simple older truck any day...they are cheaper, easier to fix, does the same job. Am I wrong or are new trucks just overpriced?

 

[Jason1]

You’re not wrong. Older trucks do the same work without the massive price tag, extra tech or expensive repairs.

 

[Alan]

You’re not wrong. Older trucks do the same work without the massive price tag, extra tech or expensive repairs.

Exactly, Jason. Sometimes simpler is better

 

[VenomBallistics]

I'm with you.
My rig is a Subaru outback turbo.
In my way of thinking, a car would fill our needs most of the time and save us significantly in operating costs.
When the light turns green, the Soob will humiliate any Ram hemi, and do so quietly, while the Ram wakes our Mesopotamian ancestors re enacting the performance of the malaise era. I'm unsure of what happens next ... I'm gone by then. It'll haul at least 6X the guns and ammo I could stand to shoot and still have room to facilitate roaming the wastelands in search of decent cheese curds. It's ride quality is among the very best of anything I've ever driven. a 12 hour drive is a cake walk. It handles the I-80 Gran Prix with better than 26 MPG, Higher when not engaged in Omaha area vehicular warfare.
All this at half the price of most domestic trucks.
Now, this is coming from someone who does not haul a boat, camper, or trailer. And I have about as much desire to haul a load of bricks as Linda Ronstadt ... and I don't want to haul her either.
If I did have such needs and desires, I have enormous respect for the old '74 IHC Scout.
While operating it might qualify as mutual combat. I'll try to beat you to death as hard as you're trying to kill it. it will survive any stupidity you can live to tell about, and I have the trout to prove it.

 

[Bulb]

My 2001 F250 with the 7.3 diesel has 280,000 miles on it and I can diagnose most problems without a scan tool. Try doing that with a 2024 model.

 

[Alan]

I'm with you.
My rig is a Subaru outback turbo.
In my way of thinking, a car would fill our needs most of the time and save us significantly in operating costs.
When the light turns green, the Soob will humiliate any Ram hemi, and do so quietly, while the Ram wakes our Mesopotamian ancestors re enacting the performance of the malaise era. I'm unsure of what happens next ... I'm gone by then. It'll haul at least 6X the guns and ammo I could stand to shoot and still have room to facilitate roaming the wastelands in search of decent cheese curds. It's ride quality is among the very best of anything I've ever driven. a 12 hour drive is a cake walk. It handles the I-80 Gran Prix with better than 26 MPG, Higher when not engaged in Omaha area vehicular warfare.
All this at half the price of most domestic trucks.
Now, this is coming from someone who does not haul a boat, camper, or trailer. And I have about as much desire to haul a load of bricks as Linda Ronstadt ... and I don't want to haul her either.
If I did have such needs and desires, I have enormous respect for the old '74 IHC Scout.
While operating it might qualify as mutual combat. I'll try to beat you to death as hard as you're trying to kill it. it will survive any stupidity you can live to tell about, and I have the trout to prove it.

You make a pretty solid case. The Outback is one of those vehicles that quietly does almost everything well without demanding truck money or truck fuel bills. If you're not towing, it's tough to argue against the practicality.