4 banger truck, tacoma or frontier?

[Jacobman 10+ year member]

At the end of summer before school starts i am going to buy a commuter truck. So this means a 4banger, which i dont really care about having a beefy truck this time in my life. My budget is going to be ~4500-6000, manual or automatic doesnt matter, would you take a frontier or tacoma, or another suggestion? Also if youve had one of those trucks plz post opinion on it.

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[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

in your price range you might do better with a ranger.

 

[Army-Killa]

Get an s10 but I will tell yea the 2.2l 4 banger is slow as **** I got 20's on mine and I get beat of the line by kia's. But gas mileage is awsome on it.

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

Yota

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[vwrx_freak 10+ year member]

i just rrecently shopped out the 2 i liked the toyota more felt a little more solid but i bought the frontier because the only tacoma i could afford had high miles on it my price range was $10,000 i got a 02 frontier with 55K miles 4 cylinder manual im getting over 25 mpg if i drive freeway

 

[Gianotti 10+ year member]

yota X2

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

yota.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

can he get a decent yota for $4500? I thought they held their resale better than that.

 

[Jacobman 10+ year member]

Will if yotas are really good then i may be able to save a little more and up the range, i certainly dont wanna buy a pile of junk. What would be a decent range 6-7k? I will at least make a 1500 down payment on whatever i get, goal is to have less than a $200 payment per month, something in the $150 range would be great.

 

[Mugen 10+ year member]

I'm happy with my Ranger, other than it being single cab. If it was extended cab, I'd keep it all through college, and it's not that slow if you can drive a stick good, usually get about 23-24 mpg in mine. I'm probably going to get something else next year simply because it sucks putting speakers into a small single cab truck //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[KnOkIn It 420 10+ year member]

Tocoma

 

[JohnnyChuttz 10+ year member]

I really liked my dad's old Nissan Frontier. An '01, I think. It was great on gas mileage. It crumpled like a tin can and rolled when a guy hit him though, so -1 for that. Whatever you get, get the extended cab. I wish to God my Ranger was an ext cab. I would keep it forever if it was.

 

[Mugen 10+ year member]

I really liked my dad's old Nissan Frontier. An '01, I think. It was great on gas mileage. It crumpled like a tin can and rolled when a guy hit him though, so -1 for that. Whatever you get, get the extended cab. I wish to God my Ranger was an ext cab. I would keep it forever if it was.

Not to thread jack, but was it easy getting 6.5"s in your truck? I want to upgrade my mids (including a new amp) and want 6.5"s instead of 5-1/4" like I have now.