Family vehicles

[Stormtrooper]

What do yall use for family vehicles? I might have a baby on the way and if so unfortunately the ranger will have to go. What do yall recommend? Keep in mind whatever I get is going to have to be something I can trade the ranger for.

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[97RangerXLT]

A 2009 Dodge Charger (pos...don't recommend. )is the main family truckster. Roomy and comfortable but a mechanical junkheap. If it werent for the lifetime warranty i would have gotten rid of it 6 years ago.

Along with my ranger I have a fully loaded 2004 Nissan Maxima. Really fun to drive but difficult to work on and the wife hates it. Not as roomy as the charger but a much nicer car.

My advice...if you can all possible keep the Ranger as a second vehicle unless it is a mechanical junkheap. It is nice to have the second car and a Ranger will haul a kid fairly well if needed although not so good on a second adult, but if an emergency comes up you can do it.

Get a mid or large car. For the first three years of the kids life you will be hauling enough crap to fill the trunk (stroller, pack n play, diaper bag toys etc) plus stuffing the kid into a car seat is much easier in a larger car...trust me...and you will thank me for this after doing it when it is pouring rain.

AJ

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[adsm08]

My wife drives an 05 Explorer that we picked up cheap, about $3000 due to hail damage. Not really anything else wrong with it except looking like a golf ball. That's our main family car.

My family hauler is my BII that I got for $600. It is down for a 4.0 swap ATM, waiting on wiring harnesses. It carries everyone but the dogs.

The Ranger can haul all 3 of us, but in May there will be 4 of us and that it won't do as well. I have it more to use as a truck, because that's just what it is.

 

[Kealel]

We have a manual 2004 nissan altima, very reliable and extremely fun to drive... but it is a very boring interior and exterior to look at (white and gray)<br />
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27mpg, hasn't needed to go to the shop for anything other than brakes. And cheap to buy.

 

[bobbywalter]

3.3 liter dodge minivan.


they are like cockroaches...hard to kill.

 

[adsm08]

3.3 liter dodge minivan.


they are like cockroaches...hard to kill.

Unless of course it has one of those durn electronic automagic transmissions. Those things would break coming off the line.

 

[Mike1919]

Used to have a kia sorento. Fuel mileage wasn't all that great( 16-20) but tough and pretty quick.

 

[97RangerXLT]

3.3 liter dodge minivan.


they are like cockroaches...hard to kill.

Lol I said that about my 94 3.3 liter Dodge Intrepid. It took someone hitting it in a roundabout to kill it. almost had 200k on it and looked like hell, but no engine lights were on and the only thing that didn't work on it was the A/C. I think it would have easily went 300k.

AJ

 

[bobbywalter]

Unless of course it has one of those durn electronic automagic transmissions. Those things would break coming off the line.

?????????????

the 604 is probably the most bad ass trans they ever built....


most issues were not internal on those...just shady trans shops ripping people off.....


had 3 in a row that exceeded 300k....95-2015 that drove my 5 piglets all over the country... one had a tss go out 6 months after it left the assemble line...800 miles from home... and the other the solo pack connector was loose....

no failures though.

they do fail....but that was in majority the idiot driving it with low fluid because the lines liked to leak and required tightening after a few winter seasons...or thy were topping it off with non atf+4 fluid...

to blame that on the trans is like actually blaming firestone for the tire failures due to the morons that drove suv's 80 mph with low air pressure in the tires all the time and wondered why the tires blew out and caused em to roll over...


if they still made that combination at chrysler.....my wife would not be driving an ecoboost right now...

 

[adsm08]

I used to know a guy who worked at a Chrysler dealership and he liked to tell me stories about how the Caravan trannies would go out while they were being driven off the delivery carrier.

I use those stories to make fun of MOPAR just because I don't like them.

 

[bobbywalter]

I use those stories to make fun of MOPAR just because I don't like them.

ok.....i can dig that. only good things to come out of mopar since 72-04 viper withstanding... has been the minivan and the neon....the neon is a crap car but a good lil racecar when it runs...lolz.... so yeah just the minivan...

but it is not stories that guy was telling you..maybe the 3 speed trans...but if it has to do with the 600 series.......it is fairy tales.

 

[BLOODBANE]

My 94....

For when we have long trips or just want to go fast.....

2014 SXT plus challenger
You can see one of the pickups in the background for when we need to haul or pull something.
I also have a 87 Samurai (the kids love it) and a 2000 F-350, dually.



And for you anti-mopar guys....we love the Challenger and it has given us +0 fits. My wife has had it up to 124mph (I have only done 105 in it)and still gets 24-26mpg out of it....

 

[bobbywalter]

well.....


my favorite engine is a 340.


i sure as hell am not anti mopar....but when being subjective and intellectually honest with ones self....from 73-04.....


now.... yeah......i would rock a 300-charger-challenger with no hesitations...


i was going to buy a awd hemi magnum some years back and lost that fight with the wife.... for the sole purpose of building me an awd cuda' once i paid it off.... bitchzilla prevailed and another minivan graced the driveway instead of something reasonable like a magnum...

you will lol on that if you have ever tried to drive one of those critters...probably better visibility in a sherman tank...

i have had a 70 cuda and 73 challenger....amongst a myriad of other rigs.

me mopar man.

 

[adsm08]

you will lol on that

Half the shop is giving me weird looks and wondering what is so funny.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

well.....


my favorite engine is a 340.


i sure as hell am not anti mopar....but when being subjective and intellectually honest with ones self....from 73-04.....


now.... yeah......i would rock a 300-charger-challenger with no hesitations...


i was going to buy a awd hemi magnum some years back and lost that fight with the wife.... for the sole purpose of building me an awd cuda' once i paid it off.... bitchzilla prevailed and another minivan graced the driveway instead of something reasonable like a magnum...

you will lol on that if you have ever tried to drive one of those critters...probably better visibility in a sherman tank...

i have had a 70 cuda and 73 challenger....amongst a myriad of other rigs.

me mopar man.

Never sat in one or done much with one (or any classic car aside from dad's '57 Bel-Air) but just for looks a 1970 'Cuda hardtop with a shaker is my all time favorite car.

A white '11+ R/T Challenger would be neat, I can go back and forth between it and a newer Mustang all day though...