Thread: New Ute Dilemma

Originally Posted by Stag

Been through this exercise on the company fleet. By far the cheapest vehicle to own due to the minimal depreciation is a hilux. They come with fixed priced serving to 60,000km that’s only $325 from memory. However…..when doing long kms they are not that comfortable. It’s a compromise as off road they are great. They have a down hill accent button that is unreal in greasy conditions, it’s comparable to a brake system in a valiant to ABS breaking in a modern car.

ranger is significantly more comfortable, but that’s where it stops.

old man has always driven a Mitsubishi, he likes them but worth bugger all with a few km’s.

if you owned a hilux with 95km, your upgrade to new would probably be $15k

Amen to that, I find the hilux's pigs of things for in cab comfort. The back seat is an avoid at all costs if possible sort of deal too... Unsure why they hold their value so well, as we've had some that have been great and some that have been utter lemon's - nothing in between. Literally, nothing in between those two marks - the most disappointing piece of crap we've used has been a Hilux, completely shagged at 90,000K's returning 56L/100Km. Nothing a new engine wouldn't fix though, and it had about 4 sets of brakes and two clutches in that time as well as electrical and suspension work. On the other hand, the one before it was still going strong at over 200,000K's and got written off by a wayward truck while it was parked. Go figure.