[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by speeder

For $10k less, I'd take an almost new Tahoe. Toyotas are a waste of $$ They made sense back in the days when they were cheap and got great gas. mileage, now they're the biggest fuel and money pigs around.

That's all well and good now, but what about when you want to sell? Your Tahoe is worth nothing, where your Toyota still has value. And I'm pretty sure a Tahoe is no better on MPG than a Sequoia.

I'm sure the domestics are all fairly reliable SUVs. Lovely. But until the most recent generation of Tahoe/Yukon, the GM products were absolute crap inside. I haven't been in a new Expedition, but I know that the 2005 that we drove when we were SUV shopping was a joke. Same goes for the Durango. Not just crap to Matt the picky car guy, but bad enough that my wife noticed it. Rattles, cheap hard plastic, mouse-hair fabric and carpet, etc. And where the Toyota and Nissan were smooth and refined, the domestics were floaty and soft. So they'll both get you there, but one more pleasantly than the other.

As a sidebar, my Land Cruiser has 192k. I have records since new, the most expensive record is a fuel pump for under $400 (including labor). The fabric and carpet still look new, everything works, and there are zero rattles. It's in far better shape than my old 2000 Silverado, and the Chevy had 1/2 the miles.