If he does reveal the the Amphitruck,

I did see the bold letters. :p It's a nice post and I'm not going to argue with you over "who suggested first". You suggested two cars, I suggested two cars...obviously we were both on the right track and had the correct response therefore, we both win???...

Link. I hope it was because of me. I didn't see anyone else offer it up and I thought it would be brilliant.

And so that's why, after much consideration, and debate, and discussion, I've decided to buy two cars.

+1 good sir, +1...

Sedans capable of hauling 3+ people in comfort. I haven't started looking, as my buying window is 8-10 months off, but I do like the Hondas and Toyotas. I'd like it to be highly reliable since I'm going to be putting a large amount of miles on it. I'd like to stay away from the more rare brands (Volvo, Saab) since…

True, but 70% of the wind I encounter is a quartering, if not a full crosswind. Pretty hard to mitigate that.

Hot damn...I can't wait to get a new truck with fuel economy that used to be left to small cars. Sadly, I'm looking to purchase a 4 door sedan with low mileage and good fuel economy in 8-10 months. I commute about 175 miles a day round trip and carpool with two other guys. That means every third week, I put on 750…

How does the engine/tranny combo work at interstate speeds into wind and up hills? I'm curious as that's my #1 mileage killer. I've averaged 11 mpg on a tank before with a lot of windage (probably closer to high single digits on the windy section).

*sigh* I feel let down. I saw the headline and thought that it was going to be the 1/2 ton version of the Power Wagon. I think Ram has a niche that it could exploit with the "crawl hills, go slow, be a badass" offroad/backcountry truck. Kind of between the high speed Baja-ready Raptor and the rock-crawling, rock trail…

It's a bag of tricks I can get behind. I especially like their willingness to go to higher gear quantity transmissions. We've had to wait way too long for that. Not sure how I feel about 8 gears or more, but anything is better than the 4-speed auto I drive.

touche...happy wife = happy....everything pretty much. And congrats on your soon to have wedding.

I hear ya on the grays. And I know his name, seen him around, but never talked to him. And ties are overrated, the Hills overrule all ties from home ;)

I hear ya on the "defending the territory". I'm originally from SW Nebraska, went to school at Mines, and just got out last May. Working in Philip and living in Rapid. Love the area and the state.

Don't worry, us Sout' Dahkohtans haf to stick together. I commiserate with your 6.5' box mentality (I refused to buy a pickup with anything shorter) because I like the larger capacity of the 6.5'. That meant that I ditched a crew cab for extended cab, which I only regret in the fact that 6 months after I purchased it,…

Panicked Plank

Why the hell can't we follow any specific person or page anymore? Where did those little blue plus signs go?

While I wholeheartedly loved the "F" column (Fire, Ferrari = potato, potahtoh), I'd like to make a suggestion. You have a budget of $70,000 (let's be realistic, you'd find that one car and talk yourself into a $10,000 increase), and there are plenty of cars out there for under that price. How about you buy two cars?

Why stop at those? Be a Jack-Of-All-Trades.

I can't say this with 100% certainty (I'll give myself 90%, such optimism), but I blame the older truck (2000 - 2007 era) market price glut on Cash for Clunkers. In my dad's area of the Western Plains where the 4WD truck is a necessity at times, trucks saw a massive price spike. Before the program, you could find a…