drl

Sold the van today! Now I get to go truck shopping. Probably going to be Ford Super Duty.

Carrera GT

Excellent progress. Selling the E will tell you it's a buyer's market -- so apply that to getting an F (or other.) I'd also look at the finance market (interest rates are all-time low.) So I'd suggest a lease on an F150 v6-turbo as all-rounder extraordinaire.

drl

F-150 would work...but not a lot of room to grow. Super duty will pull anything i can imagine ever having. People on the interwebs are reporting 9-12K off MSRP.

Carrera GT

If you want to go big and you see the merits (and compromises, don't forget there's no parking spot to take the length of the F250, no lane wide enough, etc) I did the same with the Excursion (effectively a shortened F250 crew cab with third row seats in a weld-shut and painted bed cap then by all means.

As for pricing, with factory incentives, hold-backs, trunk-money, I've seen discounts of $30K when I shopped for the Efff-too-fiddy but now I'm back into procrastinate mode because I don't have time for the track this year. Still, the Excursion is getting on and the features and benefits of the 2012+ Super Duty are becoming appealing, especially once the election is over and we're back to reality. "Depression" is the dent your economy makes well it trips on a double dip recession and stumbles over a fiscal cliff. : |