Ok.. maybe not desperate, but I need help making a decision. The funny part is, I don’t know yet know that either decision is achievable. As some of you may know, I just bought a new van back in June, for my wife. She had been driving our Expedition and I was driving our old 1994 Plymouth Voyager (please refrain from jokes). Well, now I have the Expedition and am wanting to trade it in on something else. That something else is where I am having a problem.
The practical side of me says that I should be looking at buying a truck (for some reason a Ford truck is what I am hooked on). But the “not-quite-mid-life-crisis” side of me can’t help but REALLY WANT a new(er) Mustang.
Now I already own a ’65 Mustang, but I’ve got a craving for a more modern pony. Something of the GT caliber. But this is where the more practical side kicks back in and says, “You’ve already got your Mustang, it just needs some love, go and get a truck.”
My wife wants me to get a truck for a few reasons:
- A truck can fit all of our family
- It would be very nice to be able to haul stuff without borrowing.
- Trucks are better suited to take camping (don’t want to take the new van)
- Did I mention they can fit our family
- …. I’m sure there’s more
I’ve heard, understand, and completely agree with a lot of these reasons, but I still can’t seem to shake this want that I have. So now I ask you, my valuable readers, for any and all advice you may have regarding this situation. If you were posed this same question: Truck or Mustang? What would you do?
yea. i’m driven by the need for a 4runner. an 80s one, like 87 or 88. But i have a truck already that the 4runner is based on. Um but i’m also driven by the need for a ’05 Ford GT. Sure, we could buy one, but we’d have to live in it and we wouldn’t eat for like five years. but, i would own a GT… weeeehaw!
Yeah..there’s always that side of things.. living in it that is.
1. You can fit all the family in the van when you need to go somewhere. If you go in the mustang, just take the ones you like.
2. How often do you buy something that you need a truck for? This happens to me about once every 6 months. Every time, I find someone to help or rent a truck, or pay the extra to have it delivered. Lot cheaper than a truck.
3. OK, that is a pretty good one.
4. You did. Have I made that whipping noise yet?
Don’t know how the financials work out, but what about selling the Expedition AND the old mustang, and buying both a truck AND a new mustang? Might have to be a used truck, not a brand new one, but a used truck would cover all your criteria.
Third option: Buy a Harley.
I vote Option 3.
A. There’s only room for one maybe two which takes care of the who’s riding with me question.
B. As M said you have the van for the entire family.
C. It’s cheap to fill up a motorcycle.
D. Harley’s are to motorcycles what Mustangs are to automobiles.
E. Best reason of all, there’s nothing like the feeling of you, your motorcycle and the freedom of nature, i.e. the open road. Accept, possibly going commando while wearing a kilt. I bet that’s equally liberating.
There’s always going commando wearing a kilt…ON a harley.
That’s a bad image… not sure if I wanna go there
I have a Jeep & and a family, so have pondered the truck thing myself. You have a “family mover” already, so that argument is taken care of… besides, trust me, you wouldn’t want to take a 2 hour drive with the fam in a truck anyway. Camping likely isn’t going to require a truck (possibly able to haul more, but we’ll get to that in a moment.) So, the real argument is hauling… your van likely has at least a V6 in it, so you install a towing package (maybe $200 worth) and a small trailer (also around $200 at BiMart or elsewhere) and you have a junk hauler/christmas tree getter/etc. This will likely be the direction that I go…
Actually the towing package for our Honda Odyssey is $1000. Honda requires a bunch of additional cooling equipment to not void the warranty. As much as I want the Mustang, I’m pretty sure I’m going to go with the truck.
Well, a truck is more manly…
Ok,
Scuse me while I reply…..
Go with a Vintage VW Bug…….Please no booing or hissing….
Great on gas and Fun to drive!
But what happens when you try to haul a load of cement with it?
Uhhhh,
VW go very slow and tend to bottom out on speed bumps….
Well said.
Go with the truck…. I too now have a truck, however small it is, it is still a truck and I love having it…
I can tell that every person who has replied is a man—enough said, I had to add that to the discussion
The wife of the Mustang Wanter