[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by jyl

A commuter car for the daily freeway miles, and a separate truck for the occasions when you haul or tow. The second vehicle will probably last forever, at maybe 5K miles/yr, and doesn't need to be new or look beautiful or have every luxury feature - you can buy a 10 year old F150 that has fully depreciated.

I think it is weird to see all the pickup trucks and big SUVs being driven on the freeway by a single driver, dragging around all that metal and burning up all that gas, just so they can tow something someday.

I can buy a lot of extra gas for what it costs to buy/insure/maintain an additional car. And most rental trucks don't have a hitch so it kills any dream of using one for towing. I bet if you actually did the math it would take a LONG time for the money saved in extra gas equal the additional vehicle expense.