XPost: alt.autos, alt.autos.toyota   
   From: newstrash@frontiernet.net   
      
   Those used Tundras being auctioned - were they previously owned by people   
   who used them for work, or people who bought trucks "just because", and gas   
   prices slapped them back to sanity?   
      
      
      
      
      
   "Mike Hunter"  wrote in message   
   news:4addcb85$0$12271$ce5e7886@news-radius.ptd.net...   
   > Really?  If anyone actually wanted a Tundra they could have had their pick   
   > at the Manheim Auto Auctions for as low as $25,000 just last month.   
   >   
   > I don't know were you live but I'm sure if you look around and you will   
   > see plenty of twenty year old F150's still running on the roadways.   One   
   > old Tundra is an oddity   ;)   
   >   
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   > "SMS"  wrote in message   
   > news:4addc5ba$0$1632$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...   
   >> C. E. White wrote:   
   >>> Has anyone notice the snap shot in the new Tundra Commercial?  In the   
   >>> commercial a contractor talks about when he started out  7 years ago he   
   >>> needed a dependable truck and bought a Tundra (this in itself is   
   >>> misleading - I doubt if 1 in a 100 contractor considered a Tunda in   
   >>> 2002).   
   >>   
   >> The only contractor I've used had a Tundra of that era. He still has it   
   >> with nearly 300K miles on it. His feeling is that it's better to spend a   
   >> little more for a truck that will not need replacing every few years, but   
   >> it's true that the Tundra cost more than your standard Ford, Chevy, or   
   >> Dodge truck.   
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