Hello Scotty from Brazil, I will be buying myself my first car very soon and I want it to last as long as there is gas out there and never break down on me if I take very good care of it.
Should I buy the brand new toyota hilux 2023 fully loaded pickup truck or one with low miles practically unused from the 90's? ( With none of that computer crap)
Also, there is the turbo diesel and regular 4-6 cylinder gasoline , which one breaks down less?
Which one will last longer? Toyota Hilux 2022 or 1990?
2022
Should I buy the brand new toyota hilux 2023 fully loaded pickup truck or one with low miles practically unused from the 90's? ( With none of that computer crap)
The 1990 is 32 years old at this point, low mileage vehicles that old don't take well to being used regularly again without quite an overhaul, even Toyotas. Everything rubber should be considered worn, which is pretty much every gasket in every location in that thing. It would be a fun project to restore, but nowhere near a daily driver unless it were done totally over. If you were like me and had 3 cars, you could get one as a classic and daily drive a newer car, then it would be OK, but not as your only car. I have a 1979 Pontiac full-size sedan as a project that I drive around, but my DDs are a '99 Ranger and a '17 Mustang.
Also, there is the turbo diesel and regular 4-6 cylinder gasoline , which one breaks down less?
Theoretically, diesels break down less than gasoline engines, simply because there are less parts. The biggest difference is there is no ignition system, so no spark plugs, distributor/ ignition coils, etc. They have glow plugs for initial starting, but if you're in tropical Brazil, they won't be used all that often. They're compression-ignition engines, not spark ignited. Diesels can also be retrofitted to run on used fryer oil, which would help you keep it as long as possible, when they try to ban fossil fuels. Every diesel is different for reliability, though. Italian diesel engines from Fiat that are being used in Jeeps are terrible, per Scotty. My girlfriend's dad has a 1998 Dodge Ram 2500 with a Cummins turbodiesel. It has 238k miles and it still runs great.
