Pick-Up Truck Advice

[drew890]

Curious if anyone has experience with early 2000's Dodge Dakota pick-ups.
Any experiences or insights would be appreciated.
Please, please let's not let this go down the rabbit hole of Toyota Tacoma's vs The World! Lol

[XXFattyHunterXX]

Can't help you since I have no experience with a Dakota...but I had a Tacoma and never had a problem.

[00tec]

My experience with most of those little pickups is that you may as well get the bigger one because there isnt much difference in fuel mileage.

[Tim K]

I wouldn't consider a Taco myself. They're too small in the cab and the bed, and crappy butt-on-the-floor seating position annoys me. I have an '02 Tundra that I bought new, though, and it's about my favorite vehicle ever. It's certainly the best pickup I've owned. It's got 185,000 or so on the clock now and hasn't needed anything that was not on the maintenance schedule with the exception of a drive shaft bearing. Mileage is only slightly worse than a Taco, but the power is MUCH better.

No experience with the dodge, so I'm not much help.

[Great-Kazoo]

Get one with a manual transmission. The electric shift units on the auto take a shit anytime between 30 and 100K. Sometimes twice., from personal experience.

[hurley842002]

My experience with most of those little pickups is that you may as well get the bigger one because there isnt much difference in fuel mileage.

I know quite a few folks with Tacomas and Frontiers, and can't think of any of them who bought the pickup for excellent fuel mileage. Most of them (myself included when I had a Tacoma), went with a Tacoma because they don't need or want a full size pickup. I couldn't have gone the places I went in a full size without extensive body damage.

[CS1983]

Had a 2001 Dakota. Got rid of it cus it was a PITA and bad on fuel.

[MrPrena]

I've never owned a truck, but my former company had F150 for me to use.

[ray1970]

I vote no. I haven't owned one but the people I know that had them weren't very happy with them and didn't have them long.

I say if you're going to get crappy gas mileage and a bad ride you might as well be driving something bigger with more room for people and stuff.

[Martinjmpr]

If you just want something cheap and reliable buy my Mazda B2300 (AKA Ford Ranger.) Runs great and gets 22 - 25 MPG. It's a 2wd though.