Also, my buddy had a 1998 Mazda 2wd with the 4.0L motor, good truck for him, very reliable too.

[ July 19, 2005, 12:08 AM: Message edited by: Jeepbeats ]

 

MMMM, I think there would be many many Toyota truck owners that would have to disagree with that statement, they make some excellent, reliable, off road capable trucks. </font>[/QUOTE]Toyota? hell there would be alot of Nissan truck owners that would disagree, me being one of them. ive gone down some REALLY nasty trails before and ive goten farther then many chevy/fords, even tho im pretty much stock everything(except for a lil lift in the front, maybe 1.5 " only tho).

i used to be a domestic guy, but after seeing the crap GM puts out, and ford, well i never like them from the start, the only domestic i would touch a a chrysler. other then that i would only go with import.

 

k i'm not goign to go any further, every one has thier own like's and dislike's, i just prefer domestic truck's over import's. so i'm stopping here and the rest of you can fight amungst your selves

 

Toyota has made very solid trucks. I do admit I am not totally famaliar with them, but 2 of my cousins has older ones and when they sold them, the trucks each had over 400,000 km on them. The bodies were iffy, but the engines ran like a top still. I'd love to find an older Land Cruiser for sure. [img]smile.gif[/img]

 

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I have to say im not a fan of domestics either [img]tongue.gif[/img] my parents had a mazda van not one problem for 10yrs and then we get a 03 envoy, hmm lets see already 7 times into the shop and we got it in 04, not impressed at all! ya i know the b-series are like a ranger but to be honest I wouldnt buy a ranger [img]graemlins/boring.gif[/img] and plus ya I do like toyota but those things suprisingly never go down in price. the only decent priced ones are like 88-89. but now that I think about it the only B-series I would get is 4000 cuz I love having the 4x4 ability. specially in the wonderful winter

keep posting veiw points I love feed back

thanks

 

If you decide do get a B-Series, do yourself a favour and get a B4000. The 3.0L is quite the dog and achieves about the same mileage as the much stouter 4.0L. The 4.0L is a solid powerplant and will get 20+ mpg (US gallons, not imperial) even in modified form. Plus they will usually run for 300,000+ km. And yes, the B-Series trucks are nearly identical to a Ranger of the same year ('94 and up). The only diference being you will probably not find a fiberglass tonneau cover that fits a B-series very well because of the narrower overall bed size.

 

Yah, but the only thing different from the Ford Ranger to the Mazda B sereies is the styling and the name, they are essentially the same truck. So if you don't have expereince you shouldn't make recomendations. How many Rangers, S-10's, Dakota's have you owned, how many import trucks have you owned? </font>[/QUOTE]thank you!