wanna see the truck I might be getting?

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It's a '98 Chevy S10 with 166k miles, 4 cylinder, 2.2L, 5 speed manual

I have a 94...love it.

better check for bondo on the fenders and rocker panels, I don't like the look of that black paint,
previous experience buying a used car with 40lbs of cheap bondo and dollar store spray paint.

Nice truck, but it's almost in need of new tires by the looks of it.

Cant help myself, have to do a american car joke..
American cars are great, as long as you drive in
a straight line and dont use the brakes

Usually when i drive one i feel like a captain, its
like being on a boat as soon as you hit those corners

Your car looks nice, handy to have all that space in the back, how much
does something like that cost over there? have a feeling they are hair-raisingly
less expensive then here, there`s so much tax on cars that the prices are unbelivabel.

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I assume you've test driven it already. How's that 4 cyl perform on the highway and on hills? Midsized trucks tend to be sluggish with only 4 cylinders and 6 seems to be more proportionate for them. My brother had a 4 cyl Ranger and wasnt happy with the highway performance and he's not a speed demon.
But if the price is right and you're not going to be on the freeway much then it might work out for you.
Good luck either way.

Heres some film of a nice roadtrip through Alabama
just men..cars...the sun..and some really big blunders
Hold on to something, this could get very ugly

Close Call Crossing Alabama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syY12OP ... re=related

I'd be very concerned about buy a car from Maine that's 10 years old. When I was living there, cars seemed to develop frame and body rust around the age of 5.

I hope you didn't take a test drive with the truck like that.... I took a closer look, one of the tyres looks a little low on pressure. Not keen on the mirrors, but hey. I won't be driving it. Can go wrong with white with bird that seem to have impeccable aim for cars

American car makers specialize in what is called a "pickup truck", the trucks are actually more reliable than the plain old sedans for some reason. (The S10 is a pickup truck, btw.) Europe taxes cars heavily, and taxes gas heavily. In the US a 4 cyl pickup starts at around $15k and goes up to about $25k for the midsized trucks (Chevy Colorado (formerly S10), Toyota Tacoma (aka Hilux), Ford Ranger). For $25k you usually get a V6 engine and often 4 wheel drive. A Toyota Yaris starts at around $12k for the manual shift which is not very common, add on an automatic transmission (virtually unknown in Europe) and the price jumps to around $15k. A Corolla runs around $19k with an automatic. The Corolla is actually considered midsize here, the full size car is a Camry that is around $26k I think.

Above that you mostly have pickups and something called a sport utility vehicle (a "ute" in Australia) that is like an enclosed pickup with 2-3 rows of seats. Prices for those were starting at around $30k, the car makers that made them-predominantly American-bribed Congress to allow special tax breaks for them, and the price of gas was ridiculously low for a long time (very little tax here, something like 40 cents/gal) so people snapped them up. Now that gas is higher, people are getting rid of them. The next president will likely repeal the tax break.