Compact Pickup Comparison: Frontier, Ranger, Tacoma, S10, Dakota, B-Series, & Hombre
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Here is the new place to discuss the Frontier, Ranger, Tacoma, S10, Dakota, B-Series, & Hombre. This is a continuation of War of the Compacts:Frontier, Ranger, Tacoma, S10, Dakota, B-Series, & Hombre - II .
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you know, trucks with permanent shells like original Fourunner,
remember??? LMBO
Returning to the mini, tiny munchkin type trucks comparo immediately
yeah, all you tacoma drivers are sending us right into a recession!! jerks! ROTFLMAO
202 mph, was limited to 125 due to tires in 1992, all these facts
were published in "PICK-UP VAN & FOUR WHEEL DRIVE MAG 1992...."
forget Toy-oh-ta, Datsun, Rangers.....so on
Thanking you in advance....
I got 24. Is that what you count? Oh, here are two more: Saleen S281, S351.
Now, if I could afford $27,500 (Mr. America says that anyone who does their homework can get a Lightning for this price) then I guess I'd would be driving a Ford Lightning...or a Tacoma Prerunner. But wait, I do drive a Prerunner! You know, us Toyota owners are always paying too much for our yuppie vehicles.
One last thing, and then you can spew your Anti-Japan cacaphony. You said you'd see me in the unemployment line in two years. Is this because you acknowledge that as a Ford buyer you, too, are contributing to the downfall of the U.S. economy because your money helps to support foreign car manufacturers, or is this because in two years you'll be insolvent from making $600 truck payments?
6.7 secs.......
Babyboomer who grew up with Jewish kids that were into
hot rodding in early sixties in Monterey Park, Ca
It would be interesting to see Ford take the engine out of the Lightning and put it where it belongs....in the engine bay of the Cobra Mustang. I always wanted a Mustang, but I never bought one because who would I race? Preludes, souped up civics, or german family sedans? At least now the GT and Cobra are comparable 0-60, but after that you have to wave goodbye to the Z28.
-In which scenario am I better supporting America's economy?
About your Litening...your choice in a truck shows how the limitations of your thought process. If it is for speed then a car would accelerate quicker and handle better. If it is for work then a regular F150 would haul more cargo and tow a greater payload. It does not do truck things well or car things well. Why not just buy a jet propelled tractor. Better yet, duct tape the tractor to your head.
blown heater/water hoses on domestic Toyotas, Nissans, Datsuns......
First, anyone who owned a Lightning would never trade it for a ZR2! Are you kidding me?! 0-60 in 5.6 seconds traded in for 0-60 in 8.9 or so!
No, I didn't get my facts from Popular Mechanics because those bozos don't know the first thing about testing vehicles, and you obviously are illiterate. Even Popular Mechanics wouldn't come up with the numbers you gave.
The 1/4 time for the Lightning is 14.0 seconds. I think you got 0-60 and 1/4 mile confused, son. The truck weighs 4670, not 4000 lbs, and of the vehicles I named, not one of them will ever see the tail lights of the Lightning. Most of those CARS do 0-60 in under 5 seconds and have a top speed way in excess of 140 MPH, which is the ceiling for the Lightning.
You want to check up on my stats, you just look in the December 1999 publication of Motortrend for the Lightning's numbers and in any recent Motortrend, Car and Driver, Road and Track, etc. magazine for the cars I listed.
Don't bother responding with anymore of your racially offensive remarks. I think I shall speak to Pocahontas and see if we can't have your [non-permissible content removed] axed from the site.
Moparbad, the "LIGHTNING" will tow 5000 lbs. it uses the Super Duty tranny. Its payload is a little low at 800 lbs. but I believe that is more a product of the tires than anything. Before knocking one, try driving one. It's a blast.
I hope you're not going be one of those that follows others around from room to room nitpicking their remarks.
I don't think I cried anywhere in my statements or do you think that the respecting the dignity of others' origins is a crying affair?
Actually, Barlitz, threw the first punch, and any name I attached to him from that point is going to remain. I don't name call for fun. I joined edmund's to combat some of the BS I saw and to hobnob with truck and car people because I love automobiles.
I hope you and I can converse in that manner and not resort to belittling one another.
Barlitz is a gung ho union guy that sometimes doesn't see the forrest through the trees. BTW he's been here awhile and does go through trucks rather quickly!!!!
All Tacomas are final assembled in Fremont, California. Your dealership really has no control over its supply, but it can swap with other dealerships in the area. So do a search, use www.carpoint.com, in your area for a 2000 4x4. You might get lucky and find one.
Don't know what region of the country you are in, but if you don't need 4x4 for commute, the Prerunner has the same look and most of the performance for a little less money.
Good luck.
and this is with the stock General LT245-75R16s...i will replace very soon as these are not speed rated. Am babyboomer hot rodder 60's era
Barlitz makes some good points.
If you buy GM, Ford etc. and the "money you're keeping here" builds a factory in MEXICO, who cares that the money "stayed here." If a Japanese company uses their profits from "over there" and builds factories in the US, pays taxes in the U.S. and employs U.S. workers how does that "keeping the money here" benefit you and me?
As far as the Japanese vs American bit. I work for a Japanese company. All the tools are Japanese, 90% of the parts are Japanese. We are talking millions of dollars, I mean over 500million in tools and parts here folks. Don't let the Japanese fool you. They are in it for money just as are the Europeans, Americans, Chinese.. you name it. I buy what is the best value on the market my hard earned money will get me. I love competition. We live in the best country in the world for products. I have visited Japan and thier markets are pretty closed. They have nowhere near the products to choose from we do. China has taken more jobs from the U.S. than any other country in history!! and there are more to come. Boeing, Intel, GM are just a few companies looking to expand into China...
Just remember, with out us, there is no them....
I think this is latent racism. For one reason or another, we discriminately view Japan through one economic lens and Germany and the rest of Europe through another. No one including such "Americans" as Barlitz and Justtheone, make any disparaging remarks concerning German or European auto manufacturers, yet they'll be damned if one penny of theirs makes it into the hands of an Japanese shareholder.
What gives? Can anyone explain the reason for this?
While foreign vehicles are being built here to avoid tariffs at least by being built here it's feeding U.S. families. What did a tariff ever do for you or me???
BTW. I own Domestic vehicles because they are what I wanted. This patriotic BS is just that....BS.