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Originally Posted by Orcrone
There are logical reasons to replace the truck. The inconvenience is one. The comfort of driving a car vs. a truck is another. I could get myself a small sedan. However, the Explorer has 155,000 miles on it. When it dies I'd have to go out and buy a family size car. So buying a Camry (or any mid-size sedan) makes sense. If it makes sense to buy a sedan, then I think a TCH makes even more sense. After tax credit there is not much a premium. I guess I'm just trying to decide whether the inconvenience of a truck is enough to justify (to me) getting rid of it after 50,000 miles.
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For reference, our 1992 Toyota Corolla has just shy of 90,000 miles on it. Very low mileage, and until March of this year, garaged most of the time. We were going to sell it (private party), but my husband started commuting in it as the gas prices rose (his vehicle is a Ford F-150 Supercrew 4x4 -- gas guzzler). Our pickup is thus relegated to the garage except on weekends for hauling mountain bikes and such. Unfortunately, if logic had anything to do with it, we'd sell either the F-150 (difficult to do with gas prices as they are, probably) or the Corolla so we can cut our insurance back down to 2 vehicles only. Instead, we're torn and insuring three vehicles.
50,000 miles isn't "new" though I realize to someone who seems to keep cars the way we do, it seems almost new. If you're not using a vehicle, or wish you didn't have to use it, and yet still insuring it, there's another reason to resolve that disparity, perhaps with the purchase of the TCH.