Knebel
Senior Member
So...my wife wants to sell our little 20mpg city zipper and get an suv (not sure why because she just takes the thing to work 4 miles back and forth) and its cheap to drive around town. She wants 7 seats, and it has to be big and ugly apperantly. She showed me a 2005 nissan pathfinder that I find highly disgusting and don't agree with for multiple reasons...too much plastic and such. I like the older toyota 4runners up to 2000 and would have no issue modding a 3rd row into it. I know that she thinks she NEEDS the 7 seats but in the real world that will be once a year if even that.
We're poor folks and can't afford a $70 fillup every week,it would literally make us not have food. Right now we put 10 bucks in the tank and that lasts almost all week. my criteria are "7seats okay but dont have to if it can be added later" i am more focused to find something that realistically in the real world would get 16 to 18mpg and has a reputation for being reliable. The nissan is rated at 14mpg city.. lol. She wont believe me that it will get much less...even though our current car is rated at 26mpg city and we get about 18-20mpg. gas prices are a big issue because otherwise i would drive my fury every day. I even told her to take it to work every day for a month or 2 and see if she can afford the gas...
Anyhow, we both agree that we'd like something that we can take offroad and we have 3 kids to occasionally transport. She has the mindset that with a 7 seater suv we are going to do all those things that adventurous rich folks do and take a gazillion friends everywhere but in reality we wont have the money for gas to go anywhere with it since every penny needs to be saved for the weekly back and forth. We don't do anything really right now because we can never afford to go anywhere and as i am pretty much the bookkeeper of the family, i don't know what to do about that and she wants to get a thing thats going to triple car expenses a year but would barely have any real life benefit. Her argument is pretty much "why do you care so much about a car you would barely ever drive anyway?" BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE ME NOT HAVE DINNER!!!!
Does anyone have any suv recommendations that cost a max ma $4000 used, are reliable, has enough room so i could put two extra seats in the "trunk" if needed and does not get horrible gasmileage?
We're poor folks and can't afford a $70 fillup every week,it would literally make us not have food. Right now we put 10 bucks in the tank and that lasts almost all week. my criteria are "7seats okay but dont have to if it can be added later" i am more focused to find something that realistically in the real world would get 16 to 18mpg and has a reputation for being reliable. The nissan is rated at 14mpg city.. lol. She wont believe me that it will get much less...even though our current car is rated at 26mpg city and we get about 18-20mpg. gas prices are a big issue because otherwise i would drive my fury every day. I even told her to take it to work every day for a month or 2 and see if she can afford the gas...
Anyhow, we both agree that we'd like something that we can take offroad and we have 3 kids to occasionally transport. She has the mindset that with a 7 seater suv we are going to do all those things that adventurous rich folks do and take a gazillion friends everywhere but in reality we wont have the money for gas to go anywhere with it since every penny needs to be saved for the weekly back and forth. We don't do anything really right now because we can never afford to go anywhere and as i am pretty much the bookkeeper of the family, i don't know what to do about that and she wants to get a thing thats going to triple car expenses a year but would barely have any real life benefit. Her argument is pretty much "why do you care so much about a car you would barely ever drive anyway?" BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE ME NOT HAVE DINNER!!!!
Does anyone have any suv recommendations that cost a max ma $4000 used, are reliable, has enough room so i could put two extra seats in the "trunk" if needed and does not get horrible gasmileage?
