I was driving to work this morning and snickering to myself. I took our 'farm truck' because DH needed the car.

It's a 1987 Dodge Dakota and it's got 194K miles on it. Runs like a champ. We bought it last summer for $1K, put maybe $100 in random parts into it, and we've used this truck for some serious heavy duty work (well heavier than a small pickup like this should do) and it's doing extremely well.

GM sucks at making cars (for the most part) but they sure know how to build a truck.

It makes me think that if the American public hadn't gotten so greedy and into the 'bigger is better' mindset, then GM wouldn't be half as bad off. I never understood why people who lived in the American south needed big huge 4X4 SUV's (unless for work/farm). Why do soccer mom's need SUV's when station wagons worked as well? This auto industry mess isn't solely the responsiblity of the automakers - the public sent them down this stupid road and then, when gas got expensive, demanded something that they couldn't deliver. If people had thought about conservation long before it hurt their bank accounts, things might have been different.