Ours are 1500s. I'm sure the 2500 rides a lot worse.
A vehicle for getting to THs in winter
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Re: A vehicle for getting to THs in winter
I'm old, slow and fat. Unfortunately, those are my good qualities.
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I want to trade my Xterra in for a 2021 F150. I've always criticized full sized trucks on trails but now I may become that douchebag, which will add to the other douchebag titles I've claimed over the years.
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I’ve pulled out more Toyota’s than any other make in Grand County with my 1 ton Ford and now Chevy. Two 4Runner trd pros just last week. I’m thinking driving skill and risk management is something Toyota can’t sell...CaptCO wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:15 amTo be honest, I kinda like you Rob. I’d grab a ‘21 if I had a trust fund haha! Few years out from something that nice. The 180* seat on the premium trims are quite nice for “sleeping”
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Re: A vehicle for getting to THs in winter
Also , 97% of the vehicles in Grand county are 4runners, so this stands to reason
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When I first moved to Denver I had an '08 Sebring. Left to go meet a friend at the Dino lots early during a snowstorm and I passed probably 20 spun out Wranglers, FJs, Tacomas, Silverados, F150s, etc in 15 miles. Everyone is a transplant here so a lot already dont know how to drive in snow - add on top the popularity of tacomas/4runners with the transplant crowd and the false sense of security they give and I'm not surprised at all (hell, I have one now too). I'd bet in Colorado there are more 4x4 accidents in snow than 2x4 accidents, controlling for number of vehicles of each type. Side note - I've lived in 5 different states (OH, MA, NY, GA) and Colorado has by far the worst drivers in any conditions. At least in other places like Boston everyone drives aggressively and in Georgia if it snows an inch people don't leave their houses for a week - here everyone grew up driving in a different style and they don't work well together.
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Re: A vehicle for getting to THs in winter
Fair enough...doubt they’re registered in Grand County though...SchralpTheGnar wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:14 pm Also , 97% of the vehicles in Grand county are 4runners, so this stands to reason
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In this case, to the op, your accord will do fine! I went to school in Alamosa in 97 and drove a 94 Ford escort up Wolf Creek Pass every weekend(my roommate was a ski instructor and didn’t have a car). We never got stuck, it was a hatchback so the back seat folded flat and had plenty of room for sleeping it also got really great gas mileage for all the conservation typesncxhjhgvbi wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 2:03 pmWhen I first moved to Denver I had an '08 Sebring. Left to go meet a friend at the Dino lots early during a snowstorm and I passed probably 20 spun out Wranglers, FJs, Tacomas, Silverados, F150s, etc in 15 miles. Everyone is a transplant here so a lot already dont know how to drive in snow - add on top the popularity of tacomas/4runners with the transplant crowd and the false sense of security they give and I'm not surprised at all (hell, I have one now too). I'd bet in Colorado there are more 4x4 accidents in snow than 2x4 accidents, controlling for number of vehicles of each type. Side note - I've lived in 5 different states (OH, MA, NY, GA) and Colorado has by far the worst drivers in any conditions. At least in other places like Boston everyone drives aggressively and in Georgia if it snows an inch people don't leave their houses for a week - here everyone grew up driving in a different style and they don't work well together.
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Oh that's so true, people im CO drive sooooo bad. People in NY and MA just dont care at all so they drive like assholes. People in CA are just too distracted looking at the mirror or posting on social media so they drive like idiots. People here are, bad, just bad, at driving. They are afraid of merging!
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Maybe in another life, we'd be soulmates.CaptCO wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:15 amTo be honest, I kinda like you Rob. I’d grab a ‘21 if I had a trust fund haha! Few years out from something that nice. The 180* seat on the premium trims are quite nice for “sleeping”
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I never said that. I just said we all drive differently here and it doesn’t always mix well.ker0uac wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 6:56 pm Oh that's so true, people im CO drive sooooo bad. People in NY and MA just dont care at all so they drive like assholes. People in CA are just too distracted looking at the mirror or posting on social media so they drive like idiots. People here are, bad, just bad, at driving. They are afraid of merging!
Loool I do not recommend that to the OP and my statements were in no way meant to influence any sort of decision. It was a comment on why there are a lot of spunout trucks. Popularity of the vehicles plus false sense of security. I should NOT have been driving my Sebring that day. And I’m no driving prodigy either, I was just forced to go really slow - because I shouldn’t have been out on the roads anyways.RETEP 1 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:02 pm n this case, to the op, your accord will do fine! I went to school in Alamosa in 97 and drove a 94 Ford escort up Wolf Creek Pass every weekend(my roommate was a ski instructor and didn’t have a car). We never got stuck, it was a hatchback so the back seat folded flat and had plenty of room for sleeping it also got really great gas mileage for all the conservation types
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