rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about the five best pickup trucks to
buy today, the small or mid-sized ones and the
full-size ones, I'm not gonna be talking about the giant monstrosity like the
f250s or 250s or higher, I'm talking about regular pickup trucks that
regular people want to buy, they have to be reliable, they have to have a
reasonable price, they have to be easily repairable, because there's no point in
having a pickup truck that either costs way too much money, or is extremely hard to
repair, or breaks down a lot, now number five on my list is the Nissan Frontier
and I know people gonna say, Oh Scotty you don't like Nissan's, well the frontier
is on the list because they've made those things for a long time, now a lot
of people they poopoo the frontier because they said, oh it needs a change
they haven't changed it in years and years, come on people it's a pickup
truck, it serves a purpose, now sure in 2017 Nissan sold 74,000
frontiers, you want to compare that to the Toyota Tacoma, 2017 Toyota sold about
200,000 tacoma's in the United States, but even at the base level the Nissan
Frontier is six thousand dollars cheaper than the Toyota Tacoma, and I've had
customers with the frontiers that were totally happy with the deal, they paid
less and the truck lasted quite some time without any serious problems, from
my experience the Nissan pickup trucks are better built than their cars, so they
don't have all the problems, especially if you're getting a standard
transmission truck, hey the weakest thing of all the nissans are their automatic
transmissions, you get a standard transmission frontier, hey I see those
things with three or four hundred thousand miles on them with basic maintenance
done, and it's a decent midsize pickup truck, you get a four-cylinder engine or
you can get the v6 engines, Nissan has always made fast engines and for a
pickup truck they got a decent ride, Nissan's always were pretty good for
cornering and riding, it's not a bad pickup truck to get if you want to buy
one of the cheaper ones out there, if you're looking for a midsize
pickup truck you're probably thinking economy, you know you're not going for a
big giant one you're going for a midsize one, and it's not a bad truck, I pick it as
five, now number four in pickup that you can buy, I pick the Ford Ranger been
around a long time, the new one you can get a 270 horsepower
4-cylinder engine, hooked up to that great 10 speed automatic transmission
and of course being a Ford, the Ranger can be gotten in a four-wheel drive
capability, and I've had customers of those they love them it's big enough to
haul stuff around, but with the four-wheel drive it's got a lot more
clearance in the factory design, so you can legitimately take the thing off road
you can get the optional Touring package you can tow 7,500 pounds with that little
baby, so you know it can be a serious mid-sized work truck and I've got
customers with Rangers, okay some of them have 350,000 miles or more on them and
they're still running pretty good, and if you like technology, hey the modern one
you can get terrain management settings for the vehicle, it has a setting for
grass, gravel, and snow, and another setting for mud, ruts, and sand, and let's
face it ford has been making pickup trucks
for a long time they keep perfecting the pickup truck, so
the Rangers not a bad pick in a midsize pickup truck, now number three on my
list is the Toyota Tacoma, those things can just run forever, the terrorists
in the desert drive around in those things with the machine gun on the back,
now many of you who are experts know that for
a few years in the past they made a problem in the frames and
the frames would rot, now toyota has given lots of people new frames on the
vehicles because of that, but that was a while back they don't have that problem
anymore, now the tacoma used to be a small
pickup my son's got one that I got for him, their small little pickups and he
loves it, but now really there are midsize truck they're a lot bigger than
the old ones used to be, now you can get a whole range of Tacomas my son recently
bought a brand new one, because the used ones are so expensive that he thought, heck
if I'm gonna drive this thing for 30 years, I'll
just buy a new one and not have to think about anything, the six-cylinder ones
cost a whole bunch more than a four-cylinder one, so if you want a basic
one you can get a four-cylinder one, but if you don't mind spending the extra
money you get the six-cylinder ones, it's got
a bigger faster engine, can pull a little bit more, that's the difference
between a tacoma and let's say the Nissan Frontier, the frontiers cost a
whole bunch less, but if you don't mind paying that extra you get a lot better
truck with the Tacoma than you do in the frontier if you're gonna keep it
for decades, I kind of laugh at it myself because I've seen places that rated to
the comas as really bad pickup trucks, which is total nonsense, the things can
run forever if you take care of them, now number two in my list is the Toyota
Tundra, now in 2016 Toyota bought back a Toyota Tundra from a customer, it was the
2007 tundra and they had a million miles on it with original engine and
transmission, the tundra has classic Toyota reliability to it they can last a
really long time, but the reason I have it number two on my list and number one
is this, when they do finally break down, they have some design flaws that make
them super expensive to repair, for example you got the v8 engine, you got
to take the intake manifold all apart to get to the starter that's hidden in
the back of the engine, it's a real pain changing a starter out on one
of those, and when their axle bearings we're out in the back, they have this
crazy axle bearing design that requires all kinds of special pressing tools to
get it in and out, I've seen more guys mess those up where the wheel bearing
goes out and then three or four thousand miles later
the wheel bearing goes on again because it wasn't pressed incorrectly with the
correct equipment, they can be kind of a bear to repair as they age, and of course
they're not giving them away their very expensive, but they are well-made pickup
trucks, if you're looking for something that you can drive a long time, they ride
decently you might think about getting a Toyota Tundra, you can get the v6 in
the Tundra it still puts out decent horsepower
it's got 278 horsepower with a v6, plus it gets better gas mileage and doesn't
have the maintenance headaches that the v8 engine
have as it ages, now number one on my list is
the Ford f-150, they have been making pickup trucks for so long, they keep
perfecting them as time goes on, now I get trucks to road tests all the time,
and a few years back and I take my wife for a ride in some of these big pickup
trucks, and she said don't do that again I hate it
these things ride horribly, they bounce all over the place, I feel like the
fillings and my teeth are coming out well last year I thought, let's see if
things actually have changed, I had a brand new f-150, I told my wife let's go
for a drive to Galveston Texas, we'll take a look at the ocean, so we're riding down
on highway I said, what do you think of this thing, she said I'm shocked this
thing actually rides quite well, over the years of course they've been working on
the suspension system, they handle better, they
ride better, you can get one of those EcoBoost v6 that's got the
turbochargers and the GDI, you can get a traditional v8 engine, you can get a
couple other v6 engines in them, now they even have a turbo diesel in an f-150 they
didn't used to have that, that's a new thing that they recently added, but a lot
of guys like the traditional 5 liter v8 engine, and if you're really into
technology, they even have a pro assist backup, so when you have a trailer that
the vehicle can take over when you're backing up so you don't twist everything
around backing up with a trailer, and with the massive use of aluminum, they
shed about 700 pounds weight, so for a big pickup truck course they're gonna
get a little bit better gas mileage, because their 700 pounds less that
they're pulling around, and really one of my big things about pickup trucks is, if
you want a pickup truck you want one that is readily and easily repairable
and Ford's have been around a long time there's parts are Ford's everywhere and a
lot of guys know how to fix Ford pickup trucks, you're gonna be able to get that thing
fixed, you're not gonna be waiting for parts and waiting for somebody who even
knows how to work on the things, so now you know what I think I got the five
best pickup truck cuz there's a whole bunch of them out there, and you really
need to narrow your focus down, you need to understand what kind of a truck
do you want, are you gonna tow heavy things, are you not gonna tow things, do
you want better gas mileage, or do you want to buy a truck that cost less
initially, or do you want to pay more and get a higher quality pickup truck, at
least now you know how to logically pick which truck you should buy, so if you
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