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Originally Posted by Sliver
As others have said, though, Chev and Dodge are great trucks, too. Just watch the value on the Tacoma...it's really not there, man.
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Don't totally disagree with most of what you're saying, but the resale on Tacos tends to more than offset the "less bang for your buck" aspect of the value comparison. My '06 spent a fair bit of time off-road and was used for service work in the oilpatch for 4 years, when I sold it there was a scar down one side from sliding into a tree on a tight trail, it was obviously worked when you looked at it and had close to 200,000 kms. I sold it for quite a bit more than what I paid for the full size, diesel '08 superduty lariat with just under 100000 km that replaced it.
For a used truck, though, domestic all the way for the same reason as above. You can get a lot of truck pretty cheap by finding one that was bought new by someone that didn't fully grasp that they were buying a truck. I've owned, or had for company vehicles, Fords, Dodges, Chev/GMCs in both 1/2 ton and heavy duty forms as well as the Toyota. There have good, solid trucks and lemons from all badges, as mentioned the biggest difference is going to which "feel" you prefer.
Fair warning - trucks are not all that great in winter conditions compared to an AWD car or SUV. The people that bomb around in conditions like the last couple of days comfortably aren't that way strictly because of the truck, most of them would do just fine in a Civic or Corolla...