Currently, I drive - besides an assortment of pickup trucks - a 2006 Mercury Mountaineer that still looks pretty new, and has 268,000 miles on it. Runs GREAT, and even with the V8, it gets just under 20 mpg. Wife thinks it's time for a new vehicle, but I haven't had a car payment on this one in over 5 years - it's kinda nice driving a "free" car.
Plenty roomy, seats 4 in "captain's chairs", and storage in the rear. (there are additional fold up seats in the rear, but I almost never use them, except for grandkids) All leather interior - I probably will get the front seats redone, because my black jeans have pretty much discolored the leather of the driver's seat. That will be about $1200.
I have had a couple of semi-major repairs - left rear hub/bearings about $600, and a convoluted radiator hose about $500 - but other than that, GREAT shape.
The other vehicles I would put in the top three of vehicles I have owned...
'69 Mercury Cyclone with a 351cid Cleveland engine and 4 on the floor.
'53 Oldsmobile Deluxe with features "of the future", like an "electric eye" that watched oncoming headlights to automatically dim your own, and a floor button next to the manual dimmer switch that would "hands free" change the radio station.
Plenty roomy, seats 4 in "captain's chairs", and storage in the rear. (there are additional fold up seats in the rear, but I almost never use them, except for grandkids) All leather interior - I probably will get the front seats redone, because my black jeans have pretty much discolored the leather of the driver's seat. That will be about $1200.
I have had a couple of semi-major repairs - left rear hub/bearings about $600, and a convoluted radiator hose about $500 - but other than that, GREAT shape.
The other vehicles I would put in the top three of vehicles I have owned...
'69 Mercury Cyclone with a 351cid Cleveland engine and 4 on the floor.
'53 Oldsmobile Deluxe with features "of the future", like an "electric eye" that watched oncoming headlights to automatically dim your own, and a floor button next to the manual dimmer switch that would "hands free" change the radio station.
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