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Originally Posted by swampy_swimmer
I see your point and partially agree, however there’re some other opportunities where I live, particularly for me and guys like me. We drive on the beaches a lot (surf fishing), in winter we go up north to ice fish, you need a reliable vehicle for that, not all the roads are paved, but off course its not like Utah or Colorado here where you can just go rock crawling at any given time. That’s why I wanted to explore, but I guess NYS clearly sucks in it.
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Don't worry, I get it. There are plenty of advantages to a 4Runner that if you're going to do beach driving and a lot of pretty gnarly snow driving, it's a pretty good vehicle.
I guess my only point is that you make a sacrifice once you go to a body on frame vehicle versus something unibody. A unibody with a good AWD system, at least 8 inches of ground clearance and decent tires (either ATs or snows in the winter) should be able to do as well as a 4Runner in most eastern situations I'd think while getting better than 16 to 18 mpg and without the sacrifices a BoF inherently has.
That being said, everyone should drive what they want
. Beauty of a free country, hah.