Work Vehicle

tomahawk19

Ok, so here's my deal. I live in the PNW of the United States, and am looking for recommendations on choice of vehicle. I am now doing national web design, and am in need of a company vehicle for advertising purposes. However, it will also be my personal vehicle. I have a list of vehicles I'm looking at:

1. 07 Mustang GT
2. 2001 - 2004 GMC Sierra 2500 HD
3. 07 Toyota Camry (either the V6 or the Hybrid)
4. 2000 - 2003 Dodge Ram 2500
5. 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser
6. Newer Chevy Avalanche (not sure what year)

If anyone has any reccomendations I would appreciate it. One problem I'm running into with the Mustang is I should probably have something FWD or 4WD due to the weather here. We have moderate to severe winters, and are a mountainous region (where a 4WD vehicle would be great for camping). Look I'm already talking myself out of the Stang, and kind of the Camry as well, since it can't go off road that well...

trilogy456

Won't the GMC and bigger vehicles take a lot of gas? Hybrid cars are very different and interesting; that may be good for advertising. I think, even though you're in the North West, that a car would be cheaper on gas.

tomahawk19

the GMC and Dodge would get around 20 MPG without towing anything, both of them being diesel. I'm not necessarily worried about gas mileage.

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ocalhoun

One of the two chevvy trucks will give you the best off-road performance.
They also don't have really that bad of fuel milage: you could squeeze 20mpg out of either truck. They also have a reputation for lasting forever, which will help you if being your work vehicle means lots of miles. Also, the heavier duty transmissions in those trucks will help the reliability in the mountains. If not one of those, I would choose the dodge for much the same reasons, but not quite as much of any reason.

You can plan on putting the camry or the 'stang in storage whenever there's a good snow (supposing you often go on back roads).
I'm not familiar with the Toyota FJ Cruiser.

tomahawk19