LugsLeadOut84
Senior Member
Make this comparison... How about the guys who buy very expensive sports cars that can top 200 MPH..? Where in this country can that car be driven to its' full potential? Perhaps the driver occasionally puts it on a race track. That could also be called foolish, but the guy has a car that can "blow the doors off" of any other car between stop lights... Wow, how impressive indeed!
So, I'm foolish for owning the most capable off-road truck straight off the factory floor that will yank the competition out the way from the mud or snow bank and then drive right past them. Foolish ? Not a chance. We buy these trucks because of the extreme capabilities and their past heritage.
Great comparison.
I'd bet more RAM owners than you think (of any model) don't use it to it's full potential. I'm somewhere in-between....I live in an area that gets a decent amount of snow, I tow a friends boat to and from the slip each year, I make multiple trips to Vermont for snowmobiling sometimes pulling some snowmobiles, do a few loose-sand beach runs, take it to a friends property to shoot, since I'm retired I fall back on my old electrical trade and work for a contractor friend and load it up with spools of wire, conduit, ditchwitch, etc. I don't do any hard-core off-roading as there's not many places where I live to do that. And of course it's frequently loaded with flooring, tile and don't forget the countless amount of friends couches (although more people have trucks these days).
Sure, there's a bunch of members who use it as a daily workhorse for farming, etc. who will call yours a garage Queen, but who cares.
Property and space where I am comes at an over-priced premium so I don't have room and couldn't afford your awesome garage setup or even a Power Wagon, but enjoy it. To drop $70k on a truck when I'm paying 13k in property taxes (80 x 100 lot) isn't in the cards until we relocate out of this sh*thole.