(08-12-2026 04:21 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(08-12-2026 11:49 AM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(08-12-2026 10:56 AM)b2b Wrote:  Please don't buy a brand new truck.

For F150s late 2023 production or 2024+ delivers the drum fix in the 10 speed, so 2024 would probably be the target year for used on the F150. Supposedly the 3.5 cam phasers are improved as well.

If I was buying a recently used ram I would skip the 1500 and grab a 6.4L gas 2500, or if going 1500 take a shot on a new hurricane.

I don’t know GM other than they share the transmission with ford.

My big brother bought a brand new 2026 Chevy Silverado 1500. I haven't ridden in it. He only drives it on the weekends. His daughter drives it to work sometimes even though she's got a car. (She drove his black 2013 Silverado to school and dance before she got a Hyundai Sonata, which was a pretty cool little car before it got totaled by a deer hitting the front right side of it as she was headed up to Nacogdoches for her spring semester last year.) I Anyway, I don't remember the specs on it, but it looks pretty cool. I still don't like the front of them very much. That part of the current body style's just too weird looking for me. I told him about it being my only knock on it and followed up with something like "it's only my opinion". He said "well, I disagree." lol

I ended up giving my Traverse to my nephew and his new wife so they'd have a second vehicle to drive. I've now got my dad's old Frontier from my big brother and his family. (That's what my niece was driving after her Sonata was totaled.) I've always loved that truck. Decent gas mileage for an older midsize pickup. I just wish it had more get up and go, if you get my meaning.

Oh! Andy! My nephew got an RV and now live in an RV park just down the road from me. It's pretty snazzy.

I haven’t really liked the front of any GM trucks since GMT800. I haven’t driven one with their turbo 4 cylinder, although I would like to. I may end up getting a GMT400 like I had in high school at some point. Single cab, stepside.

Fords 2.7L turbo is great, and doesn’t seem to have the cam phaser problems of the 3.5, although Ford is replacing the 2.7L in the F150 line with a 3.0 derived from the same block.

The frontier looks really nice since the redesign and they are simple and reliable. I’ll probably get one for my youngest when he is a senior, he has to drive the hand me down his jr year.