I stopped by the Ford dealer yesterday and look at the new F-150s. They had a dark grey extended cab short bed 4x4, and I can honestly say that I really like it. I hate my beater car and the Cobra only comes out when its nice out.

This brings me back to my CL...I liked having one car and being done with it. Now I've got the Cobra....which I love, but From November until late March early April...it sits. Then I have to drive the beater!!! I can get a loaded F-150 probably for my Cobra and nothing out of pocket. Then sell the beater and put the 2-3gs in the bank. Who knows?

 

what ever u want to do, it seems like you cant weight out the cons of having a sports car

 

What is your beater? Have you driven a big truck for an extended period of time? You might get tired of driving that around everyday since you've been driving a CL/cobra. Also consider gas prices for dirving a big truck around everyday.

 

Sell your beater and purchase a good set of snow tires. Drive your Cobra year round and have fun with it.

 

If it has to be a truck, make it something fast! Maybe a F150 Lightning or Dodge's Viper truck.

 

give me your cobra from november - march.

I'll take care of it.

 

man keep the cobra. In fact if I had a cobra it would sit until it was a perfect day. Just go out get somthing half way decent for 2nd vehicle. Check autotrader and I bet you can find something close to the same truck for about 5k less.

 

I want my cake and I want to eat it to! I wish I could have both....then again, I think I just hate driving a POS that much!!!

 

suv's and trucks suck, why would any car enthusiast drive a truck if you didn't have to for work or family??!??

i wouldn't sacrifice the handling, responsiveness, power, or gas mileage

 

Fuck driving a big truck with gas prices the way they are.

 

Will you use the truck? I mean really use it? What's the pont if your never going to use the bed or 4x4. And trust me, going from a fast car to a truck is a big change. You tend to try to drive it as you would in the car, only to relize it's so slow, then you waste a ton of gas & relize it's expensive, then you relize how hard the ride is & what a pain it is to park. You begin to say what the hell did I do I hate this thing.
Unless your going to use it I'd say keep the Cobra.

 

Grab your pussy and just drive your cobra daily. Im sure rain wont hurt it.

In winter.. try snow tires.. not sure if you have traction control though. Try it out and if its annoying then get another car. I just think this is your excuse to get another car.

 

I really dont understand the appeal of pickup tricks. Unless you need to carry shit around in the back.

 

WHy not just get a newer beater?

 

My dad's friends dealer has a 99 Cougar that I can get for a good price...but he's gonna check it out. I think that I just hate driving the beater. The Cobra gets horrible gas milage, so I don't really want to drive it every day. It gets like 120 mile to the tank.... Maybe next year I can get a truck and keep the Cobra.

 

sell both....buy S4

 

yea you already did the japanese thing and now american. Time to go EURO!

 

I AGREE!

 

It's a Ford, not a Ferrari. Drive that shit!

 

And no bitching about RWD being a pain in the winter... I drove 65 each way to work with my 94 Tbird with all season tires for 2 years. It was fun

 

120 miles to the tank? Damn !

 

I thought about getting a big lfted truck for my next ride, but I'll always have to have something sporty. I couldn't make that trade off.


And seriously, stop being a puss and babying your cobra, it's not like it's gonna make the value stop from depreciating.

 

120 to a tank? Thats like 10mpg and you dont have any pull/chip mod either. I thought those cars get 15/23 or something like that

I want a cobra so bad I just cant afford 2 cars and a house right now. I will try to pick one up in a few years

 

Another option is to get rid of the beater and buy a old beater truck... Should be able to get a decent 4x4 for about $7K, and if you get sick of the high fuel costs, you won't have to take a depreciation hit like you would on something new...

 

Great idea!

 

400+ HP in the snow = getting stuck all of the time....or death!

 

Grand Cherokee SRT-8.....best of both worlds.

 

Snow tires....I will be driving my Stang in the snow and will be fine.

 

:smallpenis:

 

Don't do it man Cobra > F150

 

Meh... I've lived all my life in New England, and the CLS is my first FWD car... I've never had dedicated snow tires on any RWD car, and never got stuck to the point where I couldn't drive out (we're talking 20 plus winters). As long as you don't hotdog it in the snow, you'll be fine...

Put a shovel, bag of sand/rock salt/kitty litter, and a rolled up old carpet in the trunk if you're that scared of getting stuck... That's what my mom used to do

If you want to buy a truck, buy it, but don't use the RWD sucks in snow excuse...

 

Go ahead, sell the Cobra.

But don't get mad at yourself the minute you see another cobra crusing down the highway and you've only got your truck to roll in. Been there, done that, never going back to that.

 

Also not like you like in the boonies. Most of the roads around here are clear of snow within an hour or so. There might be maybe 10 days TOTAL where snow might be an issue on the roads.

 

yup

 

I will not drive the Cobra in the snow!

 

Just get a newer beater then that you can drive in the snow. What's the big deal? Used cars are pretty cheap right now with all the incentives going around for new cars. Domestic cars have always been horrible regarding resale value, woudn't be too hard to find one i suppose.

 

I'll never own a truck.....too many people already want me to help them move shit as it is

 

You can tell Nicky already made up his mind. F150 thread within a week is my guess

 

pretty sure the cobra takes super unleaded where the F-150 is happy w/ regular.


it's pretty much a wash.

 

I've been looking at some decent daily drivers on autotrader.com. I just hate driving the Cutlass soooooooooo much!!! I think If I had something that I wasn't ashamed to be seen in to drive along with the Cobra...I'd be fine!