Hey guys;
Starting to Look for my 3rd cruiser. First was an 80 that was my all time favorite ride. Second was a nice 100 series. Our family grew, we got minivan and an 07 Sequoia.
Now we're looking at a school for our 8 year old that's further from home, and my wife told me she thinks she'd feel more comfortable on nasty winter roads driving a 200 Series (versus an immaculate 68k Mile 07 Sequoia Limited that we bought out of Virginia so-as to get a rust free one). The Sequoia is nice...probably one of the nicest 1st Gens out there, but it's definitely not a Land Cruiser.
Thinking I'll try to find a 10 or 11 with around 50k miles, for $45k-ish. This seems to be a sweet spot. A few grand less and the mileages seem to jump way up. Takes another 10 grand to get into anything sub 30k miles. I'll make the jump this Fall, once we're sure what we're doing.
LX looks slightly less expensive than the Land Cruiser, probably because they sell 2x as many here in the U.S.
Any particular years to aim for?
This Will be something we probably put 20-25k miles a year on for 3-4 years and trade up again, so trying to buy in the "sweet spot" to minimize the financial hit
I realize that putting that many miles on a vehicle that gets mid-teens MPG isn't the cheapest way to skin the cat, but at least we'll all be safe
Thanks for any thoughts!!
(PS will the '16 refresh likely cause much of a dip in prices on the 08-15 models??).
Starting to Look for my 3rd cruiser. First was an 80 that was my all time favorite ride. Second was a nice 100 series. Our family grew, we got minivan and an 07 Sequoia.
Now we're looking at a school for our 8 year old that's further from home, and my wife told me she thinks she'd feel more comfortable on nasty winter roads driving a 200 Series (versus an immaculate 68k Mile 07 Sequoia Limited that we bought out of Virginia so-as to get a rust free one). The Sequoia is nice...probably one of the nicest 1st Gens out there, but it's definitely not a Land Cruiser.
Thinking I'll try to find a 10 or 11 with around 50k miles, for $45k-ish. This seems to be a sweet spot. A few grand less and the mileages seem to jump way up. Takes another 10 grand to get into anything sub 30k miles. I'll make the jump this Fall, once we're sure what we're doing.
LX looks slightly less expensive than the Land Cruiser, probably because they sell 2x as many here in the U.S.
Any particular years to aim for?
This Will be something we probably put 20-25k miles a year on for 3-4 years and trade up again, so trying to buy in the "sweet spot" to minimize the financial hit
I realize that putting that many miles on a vehicle that gets mid-teens MPG isn't the cheapest way to skin the cat, but at least we'll all be safeThanks for any thoughts!!
(PS will the '16 refresh likely cause much of a dip in prices on the 08-15 models??).
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