$23K for an Ol' Ranger

[Blmpkn]

What advantages does that 20 year old ranger have that make it worth paying MORE money than a new Maverick with a full warranty?

I don't know this is why I wanna know the full story from the buyer lol.

What COULD be considered advantages though.. the ranger is smaller, has more bed room, insurance would be cheaper, replacement parts are plentiful and would be cheaper, manual transmission, its not a brand new model.. so it won't be plauged with new model problems, way less electrical/techy than anything '21, and the thing is an absolute specimen from what you can see in the pictures.

I bet that thing will age another 20 years better than a Maverick will age its first 20.

 

[Dirtman]

I don't know this is why I wanna know the full story from the buyer lol.

What COULD be considered advantages though.. the ranger is smaller, has more bed room, insurance would be cheaper, replacement parts are plentiful and would be cheaper, manual transmission, its not a brand new model.. so it won't be plauged with new model problems, way less electrical/techy than anything '21, and the thing is an absolute specimen from what you can see in the pictures.

I bet that thing will age another 20 years better than a Maverick will age its first 20.

The ranger is not smaller than the Maverick except mavericks only come in 4 door. So bed is in fact smaller.

If you buy the truck outright insurance is the same, you only need full coverage if you are financing the vehicle so if you have 23k laying around you can buy a Maverick and get cheap insurance. To that fact, insurance will not cover the ranger for 23k... get in an accident with that ranger the next day and they will total it for bluebook value which is less than half what you paid. Insurance doesn't care that you overpaid unless you take out a special policy in which case it would cost MORE than insurance on a Maverick.

The Maverick uses the 2.5 duratec and 8 speed that have been around a long time so it's not new. Parts are readily available and some are even the same as the old rangers.

Maverick comes with a warranty so any new vehicle issues are taken care of anyway.

So besides being more modern and "techy" your arguments have failed sir!

That ranger is a nice truck. But it's not worth it when you can buy a new truck. It's not some classic car, it's not a 67 AC cobra,, it's an old ranger.

 

[dvdswan]

I want to know the full story lol.

I don't know this is why I wanna know the full story from the buyer lol.

Something is wrong... Did you take some estrogen pills or something. Putting you nose in where nobody cares but the nosey lady from next door.

 

[Blmpkn]

Something is wrong... Did you take some estrogen pills or something. Putting you nose in where nobody cares but the nosey lady from next door.

I like when the lady next door puts her nose in my where it don't belong

 

[Dirtman]

What I sware I stopped pooping in the furnace!

 

[dvdswan]

I like when the lady next door puts her nose in my where it don't belong

Yep that sentence I wrote... I can't even imagine what I was thinking now. lol

 

[Dirtman]

Yep that sentence I wrote... I can't even imagine what I was thinking now. lol

 

[09fx4guy]

I don't think this is the average person buying this truck. I sometimes wonder if this is just somebody with a TON of disposable income (lottery winner perhaps) who may have had a truck like it, and is willing to pay through the nose to get another one. I mean, in all honesty, if I hit the lotto, and if I found a 78 W200 exactly like my dad had, i would plunk down an obscene amount of money for one.

I think we also have to consider that used cars are going to be higher priced because of the prices of new cars going up so much. The days of us finding used cars in pretty good shape for a couple grand are pretty much gone.

 

[ekrampitzjr]

Carvana wants that much for later Rangers. No kidding, I saw an ad for a low-mileage 2010 for over $20,000 from that outfit when I was looking before I bought my 2011.

There's a big difference between a 10–year-old vehicle and a 20–year-old vehicle. Parts go bad from age just as from miles driven, and 20 is around the magic point for that.

 

[JoshT]

Dam sounds like I need to get off my azz ang get to work on the '99 so I can sell it. Not in great shape and wouldn't ask an unreasonable amount, but if they are selling like that I should be able to get what I want right now.

 

[Roert42]

My wife looked it up yesterday for her new suburu, the offered 4K over what we paid for it 6 months ago and it has 8kmiles on it.

I’m curious what they would offer for my 2003 with 260kmiles.

 

[Dirtman]

My wife looked it up yesterday for her new suburu, the offered 4K over what we paid for it 6 months ago and it has 8kmiles on it.

I’m curious what they would offer for my 2003 with 260kmiles.

42 monetary units.

 

[Roert42]

I have had an offer of 50,000 Venezuelan pesos.

 

[JoshT]

42 monetary units.

42 is the answer to everything, so I'll take it as long as the monetary unit is BTC.

Actually I just went through their quote process, and they offered about $350. Nah, I don't think so. I'd give it to someone in need before I took that offer. I really need enough from it to pay for some maintenance and improvements on the new F-250 and maybe a tune on the sniper in the F-100.