Hello all,
I’ve been reading on this forum for about 2 years now so I know there is a lot of knowledge here that I can tap for our predicament. Some quick back story on my family: it is my wife, myself, a 9 month old (planning on at least one more in the future), and two 60+lb dogs. We love to camp and do general road trips as much as we can. We love to get into the back country of where ever we are and prefer to be as self sufficient as possible for about 1-2 weeks, so I guess you can make a stretch and call it “tamed Expo".
We currently have a 2006 GMC Sierra K1500 crew cab and a 2008 Subaru Impreza. We use the GMC for random towing and hauling stuff from Home Depot. This is the vehicle we use most for camping and is the closest to an “Expo” style vehicle we have now, but we have to crate our dogs in the bed (the wife doesent like this). The main benefits of keeping this is it’s paid off and the pickup bed is great for yard work. The Subaru is just getting small for just us and the baby on trips to the store and we havent even tried to get the dogs into it. Also it's not paid off yet and we only want one payment at a time.
We are looking at something reliable to replace the Subaru in the mid to large SUV range. Our situation is do we get one that is a "around the town grocery/kid transport and road trip to see the Grandparents" only or one that has similar capabilities as the GMC (04-10 Suburban, Tahoe, or Excursion etc.) and will be used for all of the above? The wife and I like the larger SUVs because of their flexibility but she likes the midsized for the size and MPG (I'm not a huge fan of them). An example of two we are eyeing is a 2005 Excursion 6.0L Powerstroke with 99877 miles or a 2010 GMC Acadia with 28450 miles both roughly the same price. Miles are not all that important to us as long as we get an extended warranty on it and i do a lot of our own maintenance.
Thanks,
-Justin
I’ve been reading on this forum for about 2 years now so I know there is a lot of knowledge here that I can tap for our predicament. Some quick back story on my family: it is my wife, myself, a 9 month old (planning on at least one more in the future), and two 60+lb dogs. We love to camp and do general road trips as much as we can. We love to get into the back country of where ever we are and prefer to be as self sufficient as possible for about 1-2 weeks, so I guess you can make a stretch and call it “tamed Expo".
We currently have a 2006 GMC Sierra K1500 crew cab and a 2008 Subaru Impreza. We use the GMC for random towing and hauling stuff from Home Depot. This is the vehicle we use most for camping and is the closest to an “Expo” style vehicle we have now, but we have to crate our dogs in the bed (the wife doesent like this). The main benefits of keeping this is it’s paid off and the pickup bed is great for yard work. The Subaru is just getting small for just us and the baby on trips to the store and we havent even tried to get the dogs into it. Also it's not paid off yet and we only want one payment at a time.
We are looking at something reliable to replace the Subaru in the mid to large SUV range. Our situation is do we get one that is a "around the town grocery/kid transport and road trip to see the Grandparents" only or one that has similar capabilities as the GMC (04-10 Suburban, Tahoe, or Excursion etc.) and will be used for all of the above? The wife and I like the larger SUVs because of their flexibility but she likes the midsized for the size and MPG (I'm not a huge fan of them). An example of two we are eyeing is a 2005 Excursion 6.0L Powerstroke with 99877 miles or a 2010 GMC Acadia with 28450 miles both roughly the same price. Miles are not all that important to us as long as we get an extended warranty on it and i do a lot of our own maintenance.
Thanks,
-Justin
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