I broke down and bought a truck.

[Bailey Guns]

I had a minivan before minivans were cool. Bought one of the new 1986 Ford Aerostars. It was handy for hauling kids in carseats and was comfy on long trips. But not cool, handy or comfy enough to ever buy another one.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

yes they say trucks are more of a luxury/statement item nowadays.... you could get away with a trailer for just when you '' need to" haul something, but if its junk off the side o the road nothing beats a pickup...

I think you could say the same about cars if you use that logic.
Before we had a kid, we averaged ~12 doors in our garage over 3 cars for over a decade JUST in case we ever had kids, but 99% of our miles was 1 person driving by their lonesome.

And breaking out a utility trailer just to haul something sucks. Sucks even worse if you don't have a truck.

[Irving]

I had a minivan before minivans were cool. Bought one of the new 1986 Ford Aerostars. It was handy for hauling kids in carseats and was comfy on long trips. But not cool, handy or comfy enough to ever buy another one.

Vans are certainly as cool as they've ever been now. I heard that when Astro Vans came out they were all the rage out in California. If you wanted to look cool, you had an AWD Astro with all the options.

[Bailey Guns]

A cool minivan:

[izzy]

I know have a new life goal.

[CS1983]

I loved my 91 caravan cargo version. When I was at Stewart we used to drive by the motorpools at lunch with the side door open and one guy would be a "door gunner" with a golf club, making machine gun sounds at all the soldiers walking, other passengers shouting lines from FMJ. Would probably never get away with that today. It ended up needing a new transmission and I stupidly got a new vehicle instead of just having that thing fixed. Love our current Odyssey.

[00tec]

I know have a new life goal.

Why haven't we started that yet?

[BushMasterBoy]

Mini vans can kill...get a truck!


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...413-story.html

[Irving]

Wow, a lot of people dropped the ball in order for that to have happened.

[blacklabel]

It's not a Honda Ridgeline. Compared to the van, that would have butched it up a bit.

The Ridgeline has some awesome features but they're so freaking ugly.