What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

[Mighty Thor]

My dadn I have been looking around at the dealerships around our area. So far we've looked at the Envoy, Nissan Pathfinder, Hyundai Sante Fe, Honda Pilot, Ford Escape, Hummer H3, and even the Porche Cayenne. He has no preference and he's been asking me as to which one I think is the best. He wants the one that is reliable and not too bad on the gas.

He has a budget of 30k.

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[venom3300]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

buy ford!

death to gm, chrysler, and imports

[mestupryan]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

my dad just bought an 08 toyota highlander for like 21k from a rental place with hardly any miles. nice car

[savagecamaro96]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

just dont but that ugly *** toyota
i would go with the GMC tho

read up on some motor trend reviews and stuff they have really good info.

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

I will say, I'm quite biased against import vehicles, and even if an import was much more reliable and cheaper, I would buy the domestic car, so I can't really give an opinion based on experience with any of the cars. However, I can say that I am not biased when it comes to looks, and will admit when an import looks better than a domestic car. That in mind, the only one that isn't hideous is the GMC.

[nimrod.sixty9]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

Should post up MPG, price and ratings. But that Hyundai (I hate to say it) looks pretty damned sweet. And the Toyo is the ugliest POS Ive ever seen!

[stevethepirate]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

I beat an sn-95 mustang GT in our 05 pilot, haha.

AMAZING car, I absolutely love it. It has 80 or 90k miles on it already, the thing gets driven. Whenever I come home from school my mom needs to drive it up to help me bring all my stuff back. Meaning that for every time I make the 500 mile drive, the Pilot does it twice. It never misses a beat. Gets driven 90-95mph the whole way (I plead the 5th).

I built a deck at our house and used the Pilot to haul all the materials. Wood, cement post-holders, etc. I loaded it up and it worked like a champ. You can fit anything in there.

The 3rd row of seats is fairly cramped (unless they changed it from the 04-05ish models) but will fit small people fine.

A ford ranger hit her head on, ranger was totaled and the Pilot had a cracked grill and headlight. Its built solid!

The only thing I don't like about the new ones is the grille. That isn't a big deal though!

[RadRacer]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

Get a new SS TrailBlazer. Mid-sized SUV that hauls *** :) Had mine handed to me a few times by them :(

[unvmyrs]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

well, the only ones that dont scream "soccer mom" are the GM Envoy, the porsche cayenne, and the Yota. I'd personally get the yota. They're kinda fugly, but they're cool in their own way. I'd like to say buy the GMC Envoy, to help support GM, but they're goin down. Sorry GM. My vote is for the Yota. It's 4x4, and its capable.

[VF1Skullangel]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

Jeep.

[Nachius]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

Although I'm a fan of the GMC it's only that!

I have friends with 4 different ford Escapes ranging from 2002-2008 and all 4 have been or are still very happy with them so as much as it tears me to say I vote Escape!

[BallerMaro13]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

Get a new SS TrailBlazer. Mid-sized SUV that hauls *** :) Had mine handed to me a few times by them :(

this guy knows what's up :cool: one of those is on my must-have list. definitely a bang-for-your-buck sweet looking SUV

[SpeedingFirebird]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

Jeep.

That Nissan is ugly as sin.

I second the Jeep. Nice looking, and you can beat the snot out of them.

[Opontee]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

reliability and longevity, go with a Toyota. Plus you can make it bling pretty easy by taking the to and ta out of the name and have a YO,haha.

[ssms5411]

Re: What's a good mid-size SUV out there?

My wifes 07' 3.5 Saturn Vue is nice got it with 7,000 miles on it. Has the Honda drivetrain V6 250hp , nice & peppy also the chrome running boards. The 08's and up have GM drivetrains still V6 with 260 HP I believe.