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I just scuba dive and a truck is a lot better for hundreds of pounds of wet smelly gear than anything else. Plus you can go to the dump, or pick stuff up from Lowe's, etc.

But its only an old Ford Ranger and not a F950 that is raised enough to crawl over boulders on Mars.

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Yeah, honestly, I couldn't justify the utility of a truck buying new. The price tags are nuts. I got an old T100. They run forever, cost less than $10K (even in CA where the truck market is crazy), and are very capable for all the stuff I throw at it. I love the thing.

Here in upper US East Coast - most of the older Japanese Trucks that are perfect as a cheap hauler are piles of rust. Really unfortunate.

Looks like it has infected the Japanese trucks and the Australian Ute market. Even the latest Hilux is starting to look very American in its girth.

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