rev up your engines smartguide says my buddy is looking
for a car under $9,000 what do you recommend will it depends what kind of a car he
wants if you want a super dependable nice car
get a used camry or use lexus they can run forever you take care of them you
know those are really nice cars once standard transportation get a Toyota
Corolla or a Honda Civic those things can run forever but you know that's what
he wants maybe he wants a big boat here you get a good used Crown Victoria
Mercury Marquis or decent cars use they can last a really long time well depends
on what he wants, reread 99 night says should I buy a new Jeep renegade for
forty five grand sure and then I'll sell you a bridge in Brooklyn too, if you
want, what a waste good money those things are piles of junk you'd be
throwing your money down a toilet you try selling it when it's 4
years old you'd be lucky if you got 15k for it those things are endless money
pits don't buy one of those if you really want a jeep get an old one that's
been redone seventies eighties those things can run forever but the new
ones they're endless money pits under values dropped like a stone as they age
daniel says Chevy Camaro v6 or v8 everybody wants Camaro they want a V8
nobody wants the v6s are worth nothing now if you're
talking about buying a used one and you don't care about speed you can get the
v6 a lot cheaper than the v8 if it's in decent shape and you don't plan on doing
burnouts to go to the drag strip then get a v6 you'd get much better price on
it but if you like driving a car you're gonna keep it for a long time you're
much better with the v8 they're stronger they last longer that's just what the
Camaros are known for v8 the v6 would just stuck on them so they could sell
them cheaper ta says scotty toyota just sold the 10 millionth Land Cruiser
which makes it one of the three best selling suvs of all time together the
rav4 and CRV what do you think yeah the land cruiser were vehicles now
lately they're sales in the United States has been garbage because
Toyota they make a lot of money making cars trucks isn't their main business
the original Toyota Land Cruisers I believe had a Chevy six cylinder engine
they're not really a truck truck company they don't sell that many of them the
Toyota Tundra the big v8 pickup truck is a great truck but compared to Chevy and
Ford and even Chrysler out sells them any of those big trucks it's not their
market now the land cruisers are great they love them in Australia Saudi Arabia
I mean they're great vehicles they don't really push them all that much in the
United States they're great vehicles of course they're big giant vehicle the
tremendous gas hogs they get terrible gas mileage in town but they can last a
really long time now I've had customers that owned them from the basic old ones
that were six-cylinder with the standard transmission to the modern giant v8 ones
that have you know all the yuppie cup holders and they take the kids to soccer
games and stuff but they never sold all that many of them lately United States
they didn't push it where the other companies like Range Rover really push
them spent a lot of money in advertising on them already says Scotty is a
1970 f-150 reliable it was very reliable back in 1970 today that they can be
great vehicles they have solid frames if the frames not rusted and everything is
in good shape they can be great vehicles because being a Ford all the parts are
still readily available you can still get parts for those snakes and you can
put in rebuild engines rebuilt transmissions you could drive those
things forever you can make them extremely reliable now it's what a 50
year old vehicle today so you might have to put some money into it but they can't
be extremely reliable vehicles if you want you put modern-day engines in them
to a lot of the stuff is going to fit, ethan says Scotty what do
you think about Tesla's semi that's supposed to be released into here so
okay now we're getting into commercial vehicles commercial vehicles are a
completely different ballgame around the turn of the century my grandfather used
to work on electric trucks it was a Niagara Falls on the shredded wheat
factory commercially they were more viable they use regular old car
batteries and a big ol batteries and had to recharge them at night but they liked
them because they were electric motors with gasoline motor and explosions
wheat in the towers and stuff it's a powder it can blow up so it's safer
having electric motors and stuff gasoline ones running inside the factory
doesn't pollute the air like gasoline engines so people get carbon dioxide
poisoning and with the commercialization of electric vehicles if they can get
them long enough range and they work sure because it's commercial when a
truck gets to where it needs to go they could have a gigantic charging station
there where they can plug it in and maybe recharge the batteries in an hour
or two it makes sense commercially for the average millions of
driver out there no it doesn't make sense yet but for that it could definitely make
sense, double-dog an excise bought a 2001 lexus ES 300 only 71 thousand miles for
six thousand then I paid too much well if you like it, it was a good car you
know that's fine but I bought the same car with sixty thousand miles on it it's
a year newer and I bought it over ten years ago and I paid three grand it was
one of my customers cars and I did have to pay 800 bucks and got my body guy to
paint the dings and stuff that were wrong on it 71 thousand miles is nothing
somebody originally paid like close to 40 grand for that car you got it for 6
or 71 thousand miles so that's fine as long as it's in really good shape and
you can prove its the real mileage robbed owners know Scotty what's your
favorite car to work on actually the older cars because they were fun to play
around with like if you've got a car that has dual carburetors and points on
the ignition that you adjust and clean and you take the carburetors out clean
them and put them on and adjust them they were fun to work on because they
weren't full as electronic crap that modern cars have that can drive you
absolutely nuts when they get oddball problems so would be an older car like
an old sports car from the 1960s I like working on old English sports cars they
were simple cheap you could get parts cheap for I mean yeah they broke down all
the time but they were fun to work on and I
was working on for other people's they paid me a they were a lot more fun to
fool around with so if you never want to miss another one
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