# Pickup purchase **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [March 27, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/pickup-purchase/12260 "2008-03-27T15:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buzzbeard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@buzzbeard](https://community.cartalk.com/u/buzzbeard)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/pickup-purchase/12260/1 "2008-03-27T15:16:21Z")
I am looking for a used towing/pickup type truck that will tow up to 4000 lbs, with the best reliability and milage I can find. Also, it needs to have an extra cab space for groceries and suitcase type items as my wife travels about 3 hrs round trip once a week. Suggestions ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/pickup-purchase/12260/2 "2008-03-27T16:14:51Z")
I’m kinda partial to the Nissan or Toyota pickups. Their larger pickups are Class III rated (5000lbs). So you won’t have a problem towing. They are also very very reliable vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/pickup-purchase/12260/3 "2008-03-27T16:33:00Z")
You won’t need a full-sized pickup for what you’ve described. I’m rather fond of my '99 Dodge Dakota with the extended cab, and it was rather inexpensive when I bought it last summer. The Ford Ranger might work for you. A Toyota Tacoma or Nissan Frontier would also be good (check the towing capacities, though), but you’ll pay more them. The reports on the Chevy Colorado/GMC Canyon twins aren’t very encouraging, so it might be best to avoid them. ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/pickup-purchase/12260/4 "2008-03-27T22:19:25Z")
An Explorer Sport Trac, v8 or v6, should fit your bill. It’s a mid sized 4 door pickup(basically an Explorer SUV with the back turned into a truck bed), the v6 is rated for just under 5100lbs and the v8 is rated for 7000lbs towing capacity with 4wd. Both get about the same gas mileage, 13/19 city/highway.