Opinions on small trucks

[808BMW]

I had LOTS of mazda's, gutless but pretty reliable imo
My friend was served surprisingly well by his S-10 4 banger
I've had a nissan work truck with the nap-z motor, sucked balls, and one of my friends had a pathfinder that was always falling apart... I don't like nissans much

Every toyota truck I've used/driven has been great. A lot of my friends own em and they are reliable as hell. Ridiculously overpriced, but that's because they are really that good.

[AndrewBird]

Dodge Dakotas (92-96) never let me down.

Agreed. My dad had a 93 Dakota with a 318 V8. Other then the plastic radiator going bad, he didn't have any problems with it. And it was quick too.

[mrsleeve]

Toyota is the truck that all the parts companies send there drivers out in.

Where the fuck do you live?????? All I have ever seen are rangers s-10's and now mostly Colorados in 2 states. The colorado is also a pretty good mini truck, I bought one new in 04 an traded it off on my 3/4 ton just because I needed a bigger truck.

[JasonC]

Monty, what drop do you have on that S10? Cause i ordered a 3/4 drop for mine, and i really like how yours sits there.

[monty]

I vote Toyota. I have owned S10 and Toyota when it comes to small trucks. The Toyota was 4x4 and the s10 2 wheel. I liked both trucks for what I had them for. The S10 had a peppy little 4 cyl that fired up everytime and got me where I needed, and the Toyota had the undesireable 3.0 V6 but it never did me wrong either. Wheeled like a champ and could go anywhere, I miss that truck most.

[JasonC]

My S-10's (82-92) or Dodge Dakotas (92-96) never let me down.

[DCColegrove]

Sad but true the only small trucks that are reliable are Japanese...

Even the small American trucks are Japanese.

Toyota is the truck that all the parts companies send there drivers out in.

[mrsleeve]

I have had many a s10 all but one is still on the road with between 134k-268k on the clocks last time I heard. All 4x4 all good little trucks, used them on the farm and on the job site for small time stuff.

When they break they are not that hard to work on and parts are cheap as hell (unlike yota or nissan) mazda is nothing but a ford ranger so you can get ford parts cheaper. The weak link in the s10's is the 4l60 and later the 4l60e (electronic) AKA 700r4, they eat OD clutches an bands and latter on the E the torque converter clutch goes to hell.

[Funkmasta]

Toyota all the way.
I met Luke in 98(?) when I purchased an 86 toyota 4runner from one of his best friends.

The truck had 195k HARD miles on it... and I bought it and drove it just as hard.

@ 210k, the headgasket blew. At that point, I figured that it had sooo many miles that I might as well rebuild the engine (the head was coming off anyway, we were halfway there!).
Well, that was a waste of time. The bearings were ALL still FULLY silver. No wear hardly at all.

That being said...
My Land Cruiser gets 10k+ mile oil changes over the last 140k miles (currently at 242k).
Finally starting to show its age...

[ethree]

I don't think he's cross-shopping Freightliners, so the F350 would be a "big" truck.

uh yeah last I checked F350s are pretty big, I occasionally drive a F250 at work and I think fords even with their recent advancemnts in build quality are pieces of shit.

But I could get behind the commache idea, what motor options did they have for those the 2.8 and the 4.0? What kind of mileage?

Also thoughts on Subaru Brats?

[DaveSmed]

I don't think he's cross-shopping Freightliners, so the F350 would be a "big" truck.

[ethirtydavid]

ford f350 is a good one, great gas mileage.

[DaveSmed]

That 22re really lacks a pair though, and the beds are made out of compressed rust.

This is what I would suggest:

[ban1]

I have had a nissan that i jumped some railroad tracks and blew up. It ran for a day after that.
I had a toyota that i put thourgh hell
The list of hell.
1. Learned to drive a stick in it
2. Learned to drift in it
3. Hit a ditch going 45 in the rain (drove it home).
4. Timing chain beat a hole in the cover. Which lead to water in the oil pan and oil in the radeater. (sold it and it got rebuilt motor wise then my friend bought it)

THE PITS OF HELL!!!!

5. My friends hit a ditch at 65 done a 360 in the air (DROVE IT HOME)
6. My friend rolled it over going 40 (filled it over drove it home)

Now how in the hell can nissan be better than toyota.
From the looks of it.

Toyota > Nissan.

[motorsports_3]

Yeah or the Nissan Truck. The one iwth the ka24de.