Rant.. indecisive

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So just a rant… I cant figure out which vehicle i want. I currently am at the end of my extended lease of a 2020 Tundra 35k miles…my buy out is 42k… and I’m running out of time to decide on my next vehicle. I love my Tundra, but gas is costing me 200 a week to go to work.

My thoughts are since the rates are so high on used cars… is just to buy my Tundra, send the whole 42k and have no payment . Then part of me is thinking of getting a different new vehicle, put 20-40k down and try to find a good finance…

maybe keep my Tundra and when more EV pick up trucks come out… sell it and put it towards it… idkk

just ranting

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Why not buy (cash, not finance) a Toyota Highlander Hybrid unless you NEED a truck for actual work :thinking:

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Or something even more fuel efficient

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If you aren’t actually using it as a truck… why suffer.

Yes I mean suffer. The ride quality is crap on a truck compared to an SUV.

I have a 2022 Tundra im getting rid of because I don’t need it for towing my camper anymore.

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Hard to walk away from something you like - gas mileage excluded - until you know what you’d replace it with.

What have you test driven recently?

What is on your short list?

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How bad is the gas mileage on the Tundra where you’re spending $10k per year on gas on a leased vehicle? Even at $5/gal, that’s 2000 gallons. At 15mpg, that’s 30k miles per year.

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38 gallon tank
100 miles a day round trip , that’s 500 miles a week just for work
$200 was rough estimate . but between $150-$200 a week

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i actually don’t tow anything… i just love the size of front and back seating

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what are you thinking of getting?

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That’s ~25k miles per year just for work.

Value retention at high mileage should be priority a very close # 2 after MPG.

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That’s rough, using a Tundra for a daily 100 mile commute. I hope you at least use it for hunting and fishing on the weekends. Good news is that the Tundra will last you 10+ years, even at 25k miles per year, probably more. The bad news is that I don’t see gas prices coming down.

This is the same dilemma that my wife has - she doesn’t like spending $400/mo in gas, but she doesn’t want to give up her MDX. We shopped for smaller, more efficient SUVs 3 years ago, but she didn’t like any of them. I was really hoping that she liked the Audi Q5e, but she thought it was too small. Too small for what? I don’t know. We ended up leasing another MDX. This time when the lease ends, we’re keeping it. Payoff is $26k. So, you’re not the only one with this dilemma. It could be worse - you could have a 200 mile commute in a CJ-5.

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Buy the Tundra and lease an EV for the commute, keep the miles of the Tundra and save on gas. Much of this depends on your states EV incentives though, how much equity in the Tundra?

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yeah that was a thought also… lease for the niro for the ride…i know this up coming year they are starting to come out with some ev pick up trucks… right now i thinks its only the F150

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If you want a truck, just keep the Tundra and lease an EV for commuting, all the EV trucks are big money and don’t seem all that useful for actual truck things like towing.

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I’m more for the size of the interior