Truck buying advice
Discussion
Hi All,
British ex-pat here, moved to Ontario, Canada about 3 years ago. When I arrived I bought the same car I had in the UK, a BMW M235i to have primarily as a weekend car but I'm going to admit defeat and sell it because driving over here is really no fun at all and I barely use it. I have a giant VW Atlas for regular family duties and that has been great, but the lease is up soon and I'm ordering a Model Y to replace it.
I'm thinking that I should get a cheap used truck for doing stuff like hauling rubbish to the dump, shifting furniture around, hauling tons of soil and mulch from Home Depot etc etc, stuff that I do now in the Atlas that I probably won't want to do in the Tesla.
So my question is, given a budget of say $20k CAD, what truck should I get? Obviously a preference for something 'interesting' or unusual compared to the run of the mill F150/Ram 1500 that everyone seems to have.... Needs to seat 4, so a regular 2 seat cab is out but other than that, open to anything really. 4x4 preferred for the Canadian winters.
The prices of used trucks seem crazy, they hardly depreciate at all it seems. I originally had thoughts about getting an older Raptor or an SRT10 or something cool but they still go for crazy money!
Appreciate any thoughts from truck experts!
British ex-pat here, moved to Ontario, Canada about 3 years ago. When I arrived I bought the same car I had in the UK, a BMW M235i to have primarily as a weekend car but I'm going to admit defeat and sell it because driving over here is really no fun at all and I barely use it. I have a giant VW Atlas for regular family duties and that has been great, but the lease is up soon and I'm ordering a Model Y to replace it.
I'm thinking that I should get a cheap used truck for doing stuff like hauling rubbish to the dump, shifting furniture around, hauling tons of soil and mulch from Home Depot etc etc, stuff that I do now in the Atlas that I probably won't want to do in the Tesla.
So my question is, given a budget of say $20k CAD, what truck should I get? Obviously a preference for something 'interesting' or unusual compared to the run of the mill F150/Ram 1500 that everyone seems to have.... Needs to seat 4, so a regular 2 seat cab is out but other than that, open to anything really. 4x4 preferred for the Canadian winters.
The prices of used trucks seem crazy, they hardly depreciate at all it seems. I originally had thoughts about getting an older Raptor or an SRT10 or something cool but they still go for crazy money!
Appreciate any thoughts from truck experts!
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